I am an Anglican priest, spiritual director, visual artist, and educator whose work brings together theology, the arts, and the human sciences. Since my ordination in 2015, my ministry has included parish leadership, school and long-term care chaplaincy, spiritual direction, theological education, and the use of visual art as a means of teaching, prayer, and spiritual formation.

Before entering ordained ministry, I studied linguistics, speech-language pathology, child development, language acquisition, and rehabilitation sciences at the University of Toronto, earning a BA in Linguistics, a PhD in Speech-Language Pathology, a Master of Divinity from Wycliffe College, and a Diploma in Spiritual Direction from Regis College. My academic research was in the areas of language interventions for bilingual children and rehabilitation services administration for children with complex chronic conditions. These experiences continue to shape my understanding of how people communicate, learn, grow, and flourish throughout the lifespan.

My ministry reflects a lifelong interest in the ways people are formed through relationships, beauty, ritual, and community. This has led me to develop an intergenerational model of children’s faith formation that integrates worship, theology, the arts, life skills, and meaningful participation in parish life. It also informs my work with adults through preaching, teaching, spiritual direction, and the formation of new clergy.

Visual art has become one of the primary languages of both my ministry and my own spiritual life. I have studied Byzantine iconography, Western art history, and art therapy, and I regularly use visual imagery in preaching, education, spiritual direction, and contemplative prayer. For me, art is simultaneously a creative practice, a way of communicating ideas that words cannot easily express, a means of cultivating attentiveness to God’s presence, and a gift that can bring beauty into the spaces where people live and worship.

My own spirituality has been shaped by several Christian traditions. I grew up in a country whose artistic, cultural, and spiritual heritage was deeply influenced by Orthodox Christianity, even during the communist era. I first encountered personal faith through the Evangelical tradition, found my ecclesial home in Anglicanism for both theological and liturgical reasons, and later received formal training in Jesuit spiritual direction. Together, these traditions have formed my conviction that God is encountered through Scripture, sacrament, beauty, silence, community, and acts of compassion. Whether I am celebrating the Eucharist, leading a retreat, painting, teaching children, or accompanying someone through illness or grief, my hope is always to help others become more attentive to God’s presence and activity in their own lives.