|  | NEW PEOPLE, NEW ROLES
Meet the Team | You’ve heard, no doubt, of a new executive director at TLC. But there have been other changes, too, including two new staff members, made possible in part by your immense generosity.
Allow us to introduce the new crew to you here, and feel free to reach out to us with stories, comments, ideas, encouragement, or questions.
We’ve also got a new event coming up we’re excited to share with you below, and hope you can save the dates.
We’ve been serving the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion since 1878. How may we serve you? |  | The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D.Executive Director and PublisherEMAIL
A priest for more than 18 years, Fr. Olver has served widely in the Episcopal Church. Like the eighth editor of The Living Church, H. Boone Porter, Fr. Olver is a liturgical scholar who takes up this post after having served as a professor at Nashotah House Theological Seminary for nearly a decade (2014-23). His wife, Kristen, is a practicing therapist, and they have two children. He is a non-stipdendiary assistant priest at Zion Episcopal Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, which he attends with his family. |  | The Rev. Mark MichaelEditor-in-ChiefEMAIL
Fr. Michael is the editor-in-chief of The Living Church, and rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland. A native of rural western Maryland, he is a graduate of Duke University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Before his current cure, he served congregations in Maryland, New York, and Virginia, and was assistant chaplain and a history and religion master at Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland. He and his wife, Allison, have two sons. In his spare time, he enjoys fishing and gardening. |  | Amber D. NoelDirector of ProgramsEMAIL
Amber’s background includes ministry, the arts, education, and business. She is a graduate of Duke Divinity School (M.Div. ‘12) and has been a Living Church Institute Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary (’19). Amber facilitates institutional growth and public engagement across the Living Church Foundation’s various ministries, from events to fundraising, and directs and hosts The Living Church Podcast. Outside of work, she is the author of short fiction and adoring auntie to a handful of children. |  | Kirk PetersenAssociate EditorEMAIL
Kirk has been an active Episcopalian for 30 years, and a professional communicator longer than that. After starting out as a reporter/editor for a small daily paper, he pursued a career in public relations and corporate communications at Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Finsbury. He spent four years as a lay employee at two local Episcopal churches, and is thrilled to be back in the world of journalism. He has two adult sons, and his wife, Nina Nicholson, is communications director for the Diocese of Newark. |  | Douglas LeBlancAssociate Editor for Book ReviewsEMAIL
Douglas is a longtime religion writer and editor, formerly with Christianity Today, Episcopalians United, Compassion International, and the Morning Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Douglas and his wife, Monica, live in the suburbs of Charleston, South Carolina, and are members of St. John’s Parish Church on Johns Island. |  | Bonnie ScottAssociate Editor for ProductsEMAIL
Bonnie is a graduate of the University of Chicago (M.Div. ’22) where she was a two-year seminarian at Church of the Ascension, an Anglo-Catholic parish. She is passionate about Anglican theology, sacred space and architecture, and “Great Books.” Previously, she has worked with refugees in Greece and taught children about food and sustainability on a farm in Kentucky. She currently resides in New Orleans with her husband and daughter. |  | Eugene R. Schlesinger, Ph.D.Editor of CovenantEMAIL
Eugene is lecturer in the department of religious studies at Santa Clara University. He earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Marquette University and is the author of Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, and Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism. Gene is a churchman and a family man. Before his doctoral studies and his entry into the Episcopal Church, he served in pastoral ministry, mainly at a church plant. He and his wife, Loren, just celebrated 17 years of marriage, and together they have two daughters, Joann and Evelyn. |  | Candace HoltzenExecutive and Business Manager
Candace was raised in the Antiochian Orthodox Church, but has spent the last 30 years in the Episcopal Church, mostly at St. Paul's in Ashippun, Wisconsin. She is the parish administrator at St. Anskar's in Hartland, Wis., and was once the Communications Officer and editor of the diocesan newspaper for the Diocese of Milwaukee. Candace has a bachelor’s in Greek and philosophy, and a master's in occupational therapy. She and her husband, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Holtzen (Nashotah House), have four grown children. She loves listening to literary fiction while cooking, gardening, and doing furniture rehab. |  | Joanna PawlischAdvertising ManagerEMAIL
A Minnesota transplant, Joanna graduated with a degree in English and Spanish Language and literature from University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point, and since then has worked in various fields including children's church ministry, health and fitness, employment and merchandising. Most rewarding of all has been raising and homeschooling four of the coolest kids on the planet alongside her husband. She and her family reside outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |  | Stephanie SchrammBookkeeper
Stephanie worked as a nurse with first-time mothers before her love of numbers and organization drew her to her current position at TLC. That same love of numbers was the reason she met her husband, Maclain, in a high school AP Calculus class. They have been happily married since 2010 and have three beautiful, young children. Stephanie and her family reside in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In her free time, she volunteers at her childrens’ school, is involved her church’s children’s ministry and spends as much time as she can outdoors, surrounded by God’s beautiful creation. | | NEW HAPPENINGS |  |
SAVE THE DATE: Sept 26-28, 2024The Human Pilgrimage
A Conference on How to Live
Hosted by All Souls’ Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City, and St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tulsa
What does it mean to be human? How do we live fully as creatures created, loved, limited, and liberated by God?
Those who have not yet embraced the gospel need a winsome, skillful, and faithful presentation of this vision, while those within the Church are re-evangelized and re-converted by understanding who we are as creatures in Christ.
This conference will focus on how to be a human being faithfully, from birth to death, how we live well and take care of one another, and how we can answer the great commission in light of this reality.
The conference will also, we hope, equip any Christian present, including clergy, to address contemporary ethical and pastoral concerns related to living well in the full integrity of body and soul, from welcoming new life and navigating relationships, to embracing change and dying well.
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