Staff & Contacts
The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D. | Executive Director and Publisher Email Fr. Olver is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation. A priest since 2006, he was the assistant rector at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas (2006-13) and has served widely in the Episcopal Church in diocesan, national, and international capacities. 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 for nearly a decade (2014-23) as a professor at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, where he remains Senior Lecturer in Liturgics. He earned a B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College, an M.Div. from Duke University Divinity School (magna cum laude), and a Ph.D. from Marquette University. He has lectured widely in the area of early Christian liturgy and the development of the Book of Common Prayer and has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Anglican Theological Review, Nova et Vetera, Studia Liturgica, Ecclesia Orans, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Studia Patristica, and the Harvard Theological Review. His first monograph, The Origin of the Roman Canon Missae, is forthcoming from Brepols and he is writing a volume with Nathan Jennings entitled Turning Points in Prayer Book History: Making Sense of the American Tradition (Seabury). He is working on a history of the Western Mass lectionary. His wife, Kristen, is a practicing therapist. They were married in 2001 and have two children. He is a non-stipdendiary assistant priest at Zion Episcopal Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Explore his recent articles at The Living Church.
For more on his academic publications, explore his profile on Academia.edu.
Editorial
The Rev. Mark Michael | Editor in Chief
Phone: 607-544-4300
The Rev. Mark Michael has edited The Living Church since 2019, and founded The Living Word, TLC’s preaching resource, in 2020. He has reported widely on global Anglicanism and writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry. Native of a small town in Western Maryland, he studied history at Duke University and theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Mark was ordained to the priesthood in 2006, and has served as a school chaplain and teacher, and as rector of Episcopal parishes in Maryland, New York, and Virginia, as well as having ministry experience in England, Ireland, and India. He is the rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland, where he serves with his wife, the Rev. Allison Michael, a Lutheran pastor and scholar of medieval theology. They have two sons. He enjoys travel, gardening, hunting, and cider pressing.
Amber Noel | Director of Programs
Amber D. Noel, M.Div., directs the public programs of The Living Church, including the podcast, events, and the Partner program. Her professional life includes ministry, the arts, education, and business. She enjoys nurturing institutional health and leading creative initiatives for the flourishing of God’s people. Amber is a graduate of Duke Divinity School (M.Div. ’12) and has been a Living Church Institute Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary as artist-in-residence (’19). She writes short fiction and works for the stage, is a family member and friend, enjoys sci-fi, intense films, amaro, and porches, and is Auntie Amber to a big handful of godchildren. She lives in beautiful Atlanta.
Lauren Anderson-Cripps | Audience Development Editor
Lauren Anderson-Cripps oversees marketing and public communication for The Living Church Foundation, directs the visual aspects of livingchurch.org, and reports for the magazine and website. Lauren studied journalism and strategic communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she was a beat reporter for newspapers in the Madison and Milwaukee area and associate editor of BizTimes Milwaukee. She has also worked in marketing and communications for faith-based organizations, including Nashotah House Theological Seminary and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She lives in central Wisconsin, where her husband serves as rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist. They enjoy playing with their young son, taking care of their elderly dog, exploring nearby rivers and trails, and cooking unsophisticated Wisconsin fare.
Douglas LeBlanc | Associate Editor for Book Reviews
Douglas LeBlanc first learned reverence for God as an acolyte at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Through the charismatic renewal, L’Abri Fellowship, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, he grew in understanding how Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection applied to his life, and became an evangelical Episcopalian. Douglas married Monica Bell in October 1988. In the years since their wedding, the LeBlancs have lived in Colorado Springs, Kansas City, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. They are members of St. John’s Parish Church on Johns Island. They have looked after six cats in their married life, most recently two tuxedos: Mittens and FN-2187 (Finn).
Bonnie Scott | Associate Editor for Products
The Rev. Calvin Lane, Ph.D. | Editor of Covenant
Ordained in 2011, Fr. Lane is the author of two books on the Reformation era and has taught and supervised graduate theses for colleges and seminaries, including serving as Affiliate Professor at Nashotah House. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2013. Alongside his work for TLC, Cal currently serves as Associate Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio. His writing has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Reformation & Renaissance Review and Anglican & Episcopal History. He has held research fellowships in the U.S. and the U.K., including grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. In 2022 he was the Meeter Fellow at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and his service to the church includes a term on the General Board of Examining Chaplains (2018-24). Originally from North Carolina, Cal is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and Nashotah House. His Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa. He is happily married to Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane, Associate Professor at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana (next door to Dayton on the campus of Earlham College). They have two children, and Cal is an assistant scoutmaster in his son’s troop.
Richard J. Mammana Jr. | Archivist
Richard Mammana is a lay church historian, author, beekeeper, father, husband, and communicant of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He serves as Archivist of The Living Church Foundation and began the Anglicanhistory.org website in 1999.
Matt Townsend | Layout
Matthew Townsend is the former news editor of The Living Church and former editor of the Anglican Journal. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Correspondents Domestic: Neva Rae Fox, Christine Havens, Jeffrey MacDonald, Richard J. Mammana Jr., Susan Rountree Australasia: Robyn Douglass; Canada: Sue Careless; Caribbean: Melissa Williams-Sambrano; East Africa: Jesse Masai; Latin America: Emilie Smith; United Kingdom: Rosie Dawson
Business
Candace Holtzen | Executive and Business Administrator
As the Executive and Business Administrator for The Living Church, Candace assists the executive director, manages human resources, and addresses business, marketing, finance, print product and customer service inquiries. She has served as a parish administrator, communications officer for the Diocese of Milwaukee, and executive secretary to the academic dean of Gordon College, and has a master’s degree in occupational therapy. She and her husband, the Rev. Thomas Holtzen, Ph.D., professor of historical and systematic theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, live in Wisconsin. Candace’s favorite job was raising their four children.
Stephanie Schramm | Bookkeeper
Stephanie Schramm is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a minor in Computer Science. She worked as a nurse with first-time mothers before her love of numbers and organization drew her to join 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 live in Milwaukee. In her free time, she volunteers at her children’s school, is involved in her church’s children’s ministry, and spends as much time as she can outdoors, surrounded by God’s beautiful creation.
Joanna Pawlisch | Advertising Manager
advertising@livingchurch.org classifieds@livingchurch.org
Joanna Pawlisch is the Advertising Manager for The Living Church. A Minnesota transplant, she graduated with a degree in English and Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and since then has worked in various fields, including children’s church ministry, 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 near Milwaukee.
Business Office
The Living Church Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 510705
Milwaukee, WI 53203-0121 [new P.O. box in process]
414-276-5420
Donations and Subscriptions
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P.O. Box 84
Congers, NY 10920-0084
For print subscription questions and customer service: subscriptions@livingchurch.org
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Latest Articles
Staff & Contacts
The Rev. Dr. Matthew S.C. Olver | Executive Director and Publisher
Fr. Olver is the Executive Director and Publisher of The Living Church Foundation. A priest for more than 18 years, he was the assistant rector at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas (2006-13) and has served widely in the Episcopal Church in diocesan, national, and international capacities. 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), where he remains Senior Lecturer in Liturgics. His wife, Kristen, is a practicing therapist. They were married in 2001 and have two children. He is a non-stipdendiary assistant priest at Zion Episcopal Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Editorial
The Rev. Mark Michael | Editor in Chief
Phone: 607-544-4300
The Rev. Mark Michael has edited The Living Church magazine since 2019, and founded The Living Word, TLC’s preaching resource, in 2020. He has reported widely on global Anglicanism and writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry. Native of a small town in Western Maryland, he studied history at Duke University and theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Mark was ordained to the priesthood in 2006, and has served as a school chaplain and teacher, and as rector of Episcopal parishes in Maryland, New York, and Virginia, as well as having ministry experience in England, Ireland, and India. He is currently the rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland, where he serves with his wife, the Rev. Allison Michael, a Lutheran pastor and scholar of medieval theology. They have two sons. He enjoys travel, gardening, hunting, and cider pressing.
Amber Noel | Director of Programs
Amber D. Noel, M.Div., directs the public programs of the Living Church, including the podcast, events, and the Partner program. Her professional life includes ministry, the arts, education, and business. She enjoys nurturing institutional health and leading creative initiatives for the flourishing of God’s people. Amber is a graduate of Duke Divinity School (M.Div. ‘12) and has been a Living Church Institute Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary as artist-in-residence (’19). She writes short fiction and works for the stage, is a family member and friend, enjoys sci-fi, intense films, amaro, and porches, and is Auntie Amber to a big handful of godchildren. She lives in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia.
Douglas LeBlanc | Associate Editor for Book Reviews
Douglas LeBlanc first learned reverence for God as an acolyte at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Through the charismatic renewal, L’Abri Fellowship, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, he grew in understanding how Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection applied to his life, and became an evangelical Episcopalian. Douglas married Monica Bell in October 1988. In the years since their wedding, the LeBlancs have lived in Colorado Springs, Kansas City, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. They are members of St. John’s Parish Church on Johns Island. They have looked after six cats in their married life, most recently two tuxedos: Mittens and FN-2187 (Finn).
Bonnie Scott | Associate Editor for Products
Calvin Lane, Ph.D. | Editor of Covenant Email
Ordained in 2011, The Rev. Calvin Lane, PhD, is the author of two books on the reformation era and has taught for colleges and seminaries, including serving as Affiliate Professor at Nashotah House. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2013. Alongside his work for TLC, Cal serves as Associate Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio. He has held research fellowships in the U.S. and the U.K., including grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. In 2022 he was the Meeter Fellow at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and his service to the church includes a term on the General Board of Examining Chaplains (2018-2024). Originally from North Carolina, Cal is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and Nashotah House. His PhD is from the University of Iowa. He is happily married to Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane, Associate Professor at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana (just next door to Dayton on the campus of Earlham College). They have two children, and Cal is an assistant scoutmaster in his son’s troop.
Richard J. Mammana Jr. | Archivist
Richard Mammana is a lay church historian, author, beekeeper, father, husband, and communicant of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He serves as Archivist of the Living Church Foundation and began the Anglicanhistory.org website in 1999.
Matt Townsend | Layout
Matthew Townsend is the former news editor of The Living Church and former editor of the Anglican Journal. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Correspondents
Domestic – Lauren Anderson-Cripps, Neva Rae Fox, Christine Havens, Jeffrey MacDonald, Richard J. Mammana Jr., Susan Rountree
Australasia – Robyn Douglass; Canada – Sue Careless; Caribbean – Melissa Williams-Sambrano; East Africa – Jesse Masai; Latin America – Emilie Smith; United Kingdom – Rosie Dawson
Business
Candace Holtzen | Executive and Business Administrator
As the Executive and Business Administrator for The Living Church, Candace assists the executive director, manages human resources, and addresses business, marketing, finance, print product and customer service inquiries. She has served as a parish administrator, communications officer for the Diocese of Milwaukee, executive secretary to the academic dean of Gordon College, and has a master’s degree in occupational therapy. Candace’s favorite job was raising their four children. She and her husband, the Rev. Thomas Holtzen, PhD, professor of historical and systematic theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, live in Wisconsin.
Stephanie Schramm | Bookkeeper
Stephanie Schramm is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a minor in Computer Science. She worked as a nurse with first-time mothers before her love of numbers and organization drew her to her current position as Administrative Assistant 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 children’s school, is involved her church’s children’s ministry, and spends as much time as she can outdoors, surrounded by God’s beautiful creation.
Joanna Pawlisch | Advertising Manager
advertising@livingchurch.org classifieds@livingchurch.org
Joanna Pawlisch is the Advertising Manager for The Living Church. A Minnesota transplant, she graduated with a degree in English & Spanish Language and Literature from University of Wisconsin-Steven’s Point and since then has worked in various fields including children’s church ministry, 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 near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Business Office
The Living Church Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 510705
Milwaukee, WI 53203-0121 [new PO box in process]
414-276-5420
Donations and Subscriptions
The Living Church
P.O. Box 84 Congers
New York 10920-0084
For print subscription questions and customer service: subscriptions@livingchurch.org
or call 800-211-2771. Magazine circulation and donations are managed by Camby & West.
To subscribe to the magazine, click here.
To renew your subscription to the magazine, click here.
For advertising questions, advertising@livingchurch.org
For classified job postings, classifieds@livingchurch.org
Latest Articles
Staff & Contacts
The Rev. Dr. Matthew S.C. Olver | Executive Director and Publisher
Fr. Olver is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation. A priest for more than 18 years, he was the assistant rector at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas (2006-13) and has served widely in the Episcopal Church in diocesan, national, and international capacities. 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), where he remains Senior Lecturer in Liturgics. His wife, Kristen, is a practicing therapist. They were married in 2001 and have two children. He is a non-stipdendiary assistant priest at Zion Episcopal Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Editorial
The Rev. Mark Michael | Editor in Chief
Phone: 607-544-4300
The Rev. Mark Michael has edited The Living Church magazine since 2019, and founded The Living Word, TLC’s preaching resource, in 2020. He has reported widely on global Anglicanism and writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry. Native of a small town in Western Maryland, he studied history at Duke University and theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Mark was ordained to the priesthood in 2006, and has served as a school chaplain and teacher, and as rector of Episcopal parishes in Maryland, New York, and Virginia, as well as having ministry experience in England, Ireland, and India. He is currently the rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland, where he serves with his wife, the Rev. Allison Michael, a Lutheran pastor and scholar of medieval theology. They have two sons. He enjoys travel, gardening, hunting, and cider pressing.
Amber Noel | Director of Programs
Amber D. Noel, M.Div., directs the public programs of the Living Church, including the podcast, events, and the Partner program. Her professional life includes ministry, the arts, education, and business. She enjoys nurturing institutional health and leading creative initiatives for the flourishing of God’s people. Amber is a graduate of Duke Divinity School (M.Div. ‘12) and has been a Living Church Institute Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary as artist-in-residence (’19). She writes short fiction and works for the stage, is a family member and friend, enjoys sci-fi, intense films, amaro, and porches, and is Auntie Amber to a big handful of godchildren. She lives in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia.
Douglas LeBlanc | Associate Editor for Book Reviews
Douglas LeBlanc first learned reverence for God as an acolyte at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Through the charismatic renewal, L’Abri Fellowship, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, he grew in understanding how Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection applied to his life, and became an evangelical Episcopalian. Douglas married Monica Bell in October 1988. In the years since their wedding, the LeBlancs have lived in Colorado Springs, Kansas City, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. They are members of St. John’s Parish Church on Johns Island. They have looked after six cats in their married life, most recently two tuxedos: Mittens and FN-2187 (Finn).
Bonnie Scott | Associate Editor for Products
Calvin Lane, Ph.D. | Editor of Covenant Email
Ordained in 2011, The Rev. Calvin Lane, PhD, is the author of two books on the reformation era and has taught for colleges and seminaries, including serving as Affiliate Professor at Nashotah House. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2013. Alongside his work for TLC, Cal serves as Associate Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio. He has held research fellowships in the U.S. and the U.K., including grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. In 2022 he was the Meeter Fellow at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and his service to the church includes a term on the General Board of Examining Chaplains (2018-2024). Originally from North Carolina, Cal is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and Nashotah House. His PhD is from the University of Iowa. He is happily married to Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane, Associate Professor at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana (just next door to Dayton on the campus of Earlham College). They have two children, and Cal is an assistant scoutmaster in his son’s troop.
Richard J. Mammana Jr. | Archivist
Richard Mammana is a lay church historian, author, beekeeper, father, husband, and communicant of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He serves as Archivist of the Living Church Foundation and began the Anglicanhistory.org website in 1999.
Matt Townsend | Layout
Matthew Townsend is the former news editor of The Living Church and former editor of the Anglican Journal. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Correspondents
Domestic – Lauren Anderson-Cripps, Neva Rae Fox, Christine Havens, Jeffrey MacDonald, Richard J. Mammana Jr., Susan Rountree
Australasia – Robyn Douglass; Canada – Sue Careless; Caribbean – Melissa Williams-Sambrano; East Africa – Jesse Masai; Latin America – Emilie Smith; United Kingdom – Rosie Dawson
Business
Candace Holtzen | Executive and Business Administrator
As the Executive and Business Administrator for The Living Church, Candace assists the executive director, manages human resources, and addresses business, marketing, finance, print product and customer service inquiries. She has served as a parish administrator, communications officer for the Diocese of Milwaukee, executive secretary to the academic dean of Gordon College, and has a master’s degree in occupational therapy. Candace’s favorite job was raising their four children. She and her husband, the Rev. Thomas Holtzen, PhD, professor of historical and systematic theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, live in Wisconsin.
Stephanie Schramm | Bookkeeper
Stephanie Schramm is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a minor in Computer Science. She worked as a nurse with first-time mothers before her love of numbers and organization drew her to her current position as Administrative Assistant 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 children’s school, is involved her church’s children’s ministry, and spends as much time as she can outdoors, surrounded by God’s beautiful creation.
Joanna Pawlisch | Advertising Manager
advertising@livingchurch.org classifieds@livingchurch.org
Joanna Pawlisch is the Advertising Manager for The Living Church. A Minnesota transplant, she graduated with a degree in English & Spanish Language and Literature from University of Wisconsin-Steven’s Point and since then has worked in various fields including children’s church ministry, 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 near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Business Office
The Living Church Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 510705
Milwaukee, WI 53203-0121 [new PO box in process]
414-276-5420
Donations and Subscriptions
The Living Church
P.O. Box 84 Congers
New York 10920-0084
For print subscription questions and customer service: subscriptions@livingchurch.org
or call 800-211-2771. Magazine circulation and donations are managed by Camby & West.
To subscribe to the magazine, click here.
To renew your subscription to the magazine, click here.
For advertising questions, advertising@livingchurch.org
For classified job postings, classifieds@livingchurch.org