The Rev. Dr. Jordan Hylden serves at St. Martin’s as Associate Rector for Christian Education. He, his wife, the Rev. Emily Hylden, and their three lively young boys moved in 2024 from Lafayette, La., where he served as Vice-Rector at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension and as Chaplain for Ascension Episcopal School.

The Rev. Hylden has also served churches in South Carolina and Dallas and was Canon Theologian and Dean of the Stanton Center for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. He received a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard and a M.Div. and Th.D. from Duke, where he wrote a dissertation on democracy and authority in the work of the Catholic philosopher Yves Simon.

The Rev. Hylden is a 2014 Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow and regularly contributes to “The Living Church” and its online journal, “Covenant.” His writings have also appeared in “Christianity Today,” “The Christian Century,” “First Things,” and “The Anglican Theological Review.”  He is a long-serving member of the Communion Across Difference task force of the Episcopal Church.

He has taught courses in theology and ethics at Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary, Saint Louis University, and Baylor. A native of northeastern North Dakota, the Rev. Hylden grew up on a family farm in Park River.

He is an unapologetic fan of Duke University basketball and the Minnesota Vikings and enjoys pick-up ball, disc golf, craft breweries and reading a good book.