The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers around 21st-century ministry and mission. She is Canon in Residence at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York and is launching an innovators program for Episcopal Divinity School.

The author of “The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline and New Hope for Beloved Community” and the forthcoming “Church Tomorrow?: What the ‘Nones’ and ‘Dones’ Teach Us About the Future of Faith,” she recently wrapped up nearly a decade as canon to the Episcopal Church’s former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.

Prior to her service with Bishop Curry, she directed mission and evangelism work at General Theological Seminary and as a canon in the Diocese of Long Island; founded The Crossing, a ground-breaking emerging church within St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston; and led numerous church-wide renewal efforts.

A native of Frankfort, Kentucky, and a graduate of both Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, she received an honorary doctorate from the General Theological Seminary in New York City in 2018.

Spellers makes her home today in New York’s Harlem neighborhood with her husband Albert and their two chaotic cats.

Learn more about Canon Spellers at www.churchcrackedopen.com

Support for this week’s chaplaincy and preaching is provided by The John William Tyrrell Endowment for Religion.