A Spirited Call

Thanks to the persistence, creativity, and Spirit-led work of our search team and the open heartedness of many, many people, I am grateful and excited to share the news of the call of our new Associate Rector at All Souls Parish, the Reverend Emily Boring. Led by our Senior Warden, Sarah Kern, the search team of Irina Wolf Carriere, Sharon Chipman, Michael Drell, Jeannie Koops, and Richard Lynch were consistently creative, careful, and considered. As can often be the case, an intentional process led to an outstanding result.

At All Souls Parish we have been the beneficiaries over the last seventeen years of the faith-filled pastoring, generative preaching, and skillful teaching of the Reverends Kristin Krantz, Liz Tichenor, and Maggie Foote as Associate Rectors. I have every hope that the Reverend Emily Boring will continue in and expand upon that tradition. Emily comes to us from the Diocese of Oregon (thank you Bishop Diana!) and along with the downbeat of preaching and teaching, she will be leading our parish life in the areas of Children and Family, Youth, and Pastoral Care. Her work with us will have one noteworthy component. Because of a commitment to a book that she has been contracted to write, she will writing that book alongside her four-day-a-week work at All Souls.

Emily B. (we are now blessed with more than one Emily) will begin at All Souls on Monday, August 21st, and her first Sunday will be our Homecoming Sunday, August 27th. (more on that feast to come) In the meanwhile please keep Emily in your prayers as she prepares to move across country from Connecticut to Berkeley and begins her life anew among us.

Peace,

Phil+