Guest Speakers
Guest Preachers and Speakers
St. Martin's hosts guest clergy and speakers throughout the year to preach and teach in Worship services, Adult Education classes and more.
The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D.
Executive Director, The Living Church Foundation
Sunday, Jan. 11
8, 9 and 11:15 a.m.*
The Church
*The 11:15 a.m. service will be livestreamed on our Watch Online page.
8, 9 and 11:15 a.m.*
The Church
*The 11:15 a.m. service will be livestreamed on our Watch Online page.
The Rev. Dr. Matthew Olver serves as the Executive Director of The Living Church Foundation, which since 1878 has published The Living Church magazine serving The Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. Dr. Olver is a liturgical theologian with a wide range of publications, previously serving as a professor at Nashotah House and as an associate rector at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas. Today, in his work for The Living Church Foundation, he leads an independent nonprofit that serves the renewal and mission of the church through a wide array of publications.
Learn more about Fr. Olver here.
Lauren Whitnah, Ph.D.
Dean, Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Sunday, Jan. 11
10:15 a.m.
Bagby Parish Hall
10:15 a.m.
Bagby Parish Hall
Dr. Lauren Whitnah has served as Dean of Nashotah House Theological Seminary since summer 2024. A medieval historian (PhD, Notre Dame) as well as a daughter and sister of Episcopal clergy, her academic focus centers on devotion to saints and the understanding of sacred place in the High Middle Ages, particularly in England and Scotland, with a wide range of publications to her credit. As the Dean of Nashotah House, she leads a biblically faithful and mission-minded seminary that has served the Episcopal Church and now also the wider Anglican Communion since 1841, rooted in the Benedictine and Anglo-Catholic tradition.
Learn more about Dr. Whitnah here.