About

I'm an Episcopal priest, a writer, and a stubborn believer that things get better when more people help make them.

Most of my work starts from one question: what if the people in the room weren't just an audience? Years ago I began building a way of preaching where the whole community helps tell the story, using simple wooden figures, a felt cloth, and open questions anyone can answer. It grew beyond my own church into a method now used by more than a hundred preachers across different traditions, and into a book coming from Church Publishing in 2026.

These days much of my work sits at an odd intersection: ancient, hands-on, all-ages practice on one side, and artificial intelligence on the other. I write about that meeting point in my newsletter, The Human Part, because I think the arrival of AI makes the human parts of religious life matter more than ever. The real skill is knowing which things to keep warm and close, and which to let the machines carry.

I live in Oakland with my family. The work and the life aren't separate for me. Both come down to the same thing: making spaces where people of every age feel they belong.

For the record: I serve as Associate Rector at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco.