That Wonderful and Sacred Mystery "Re-Imaging Theology & the Heart of Sacred Music"

• The Most Rev'd Melissa Skelton. Archbishop Skelton served as the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon before her retirement in 2021. She was the first woman to be elected Archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada and was first woman elected as a Metropolitan in the Anglican Communion. Currently she is serving as the Bishop Provisional in the Diocese of Olympia and is in her fifth year as the Episcopal Visitor of our Society. Her Grace founded the College of Congregational Development and the Diocesan School for Parish Development in the Diocese of New Westminster. The School established by Archbishop Skelton is now active in a growing number of dioceses in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
• Dr David Hurd. David Hurd is well-known as a composer, church musician, and concert organist in the United States. In addition to his many awards and accolades in relation to his organ performance and expertise, he holds honorary doctorates from multiple institutions. He taught on the faculty of The General Theological Seminary from 1976-2015 and has also taught at Duke University, Manhattan School of Music, Westminster Choir College, and Yale University. He holds degrees from Oberlin College (undergraduate) and also studied at the Juilliard School, the High School of Music and Art, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In addition to being a sought-after concert organist who has performed globally, he has won awards in organ performance and improvisation. He has composed and published many choral, vocal, organ, and liturgical works. Since 2016, he has been Organist and Music Director of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square.
• Dr. Sarah Coakley. Dr Coakley holds degrees from Cambridge (BA/MA, PhD) and Harvard (Th.M). She has taught at Lancaster University (1976-1991), Oriel College, Oxford (1991-93), Harvard Divinity School (1993-2007; Mallinckrodt Professor, 1995-2007), and served as visiting Professorship at Princeton University (2003-4). In addition, in 2012, she gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. Most recently, she was the Norris-Hulse Professor at Cambridge University from 2007 to 2018. Other prestigious academic positions include Honorary Professor at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews University in 2018, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome) in 2019. She is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received honorary degrees from the Universities of Lund, St Andrews, Toronto (St Michael’s College), and London (Heythrop College). At this time, she is completing the remaining volumes of her systematic theology, as well as editing her recent papers in philosophy of religion.

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