Stephanie Spellers

The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers is a renowned preacher, teacher, and leader around progressive Christianity in America. The author of The Church Cracked Open and Radical Welcome, her newest book – Church Tomorrow?: What the ‘Nones’ and ‘Dones’ Teach Us About the Future of Faith – wrestles with the decline of traditional religion and the spiritual wisdom of nonreligious Millennials and Gen Zers. After nearly a decade overseeing The Episcopal Church’s work on evangelism, racial reconciliation, social justice, and church planting, Stephanie currently serves as Canon in Residence at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. She has served as chaplain to the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, directed evangelism and reconciliation at General Theological Seminary, and led church vitality efforts in the Diocese of Long Island. Her professional ministry began at St. Paul’s Cathedral-Boston, where she founded The Crossing, a ground-breaking church that weaves Episcopal tradition with voices from the margins. A graduate of both Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, prior to priesthood, she was a newspaper reporter in East Tennessee.