Sunday Forum: Roger Owens, author of Everyday Contemplative: The Way of Prayerful Living

Sunday, May 15, 2022, 9:45 AM

L. Roger Owens is a professor of Christian spirituality and ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. With a passion for spiritual formation, Roger is an engaging speaker and preacher. He is the author of several books about living a spiritual life, including Everyday Contemplative, which St. Paul's Small Groups are currently reading.

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The Rev. Noah H. Evans

Rector and Chaplain to St. Paul's Nursery School

412-531-7153 ext. 11

The Rev. Ted Babcock

Honorary Priest Associate

The Rev. Noah H. Evans

Rector and Chaplain to St. Paul's Nursery School
412-531-7153 ext. 11 |

The Reverend Noah H. Evans, our Rector and pastor, has been with St. Paul's since March 2017. Ordained in 2004, previously, Noah served as the Rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Medford, Massachusetts and as the Associate Rector of St. Anne's in the Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln Massachusetts. Noah was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. He is a graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis and The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Noah lives in Mt. Lebanon, with his wife, the Reverend Sara Irwin, an Episcopal Priest, who serves as the Pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carnegie. Their daughter Adah was born in 2009 and their son Isaiah was born in 2007. They have a Golden Retriever (Blue) and three chickens (Noise, Snow Flurry and Buckbeak). Noah loves cooking, smoking meat, local foods, current events and politics, the intersection of church and society, movies and television and teaching the bible. He was the co-founder of Life Together: the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts Young Adult Internship Program and has served on the boards of a number social-justice non-profits. In 2016, Noah received the first Wallace H. Kountze Community Service Award by the Mystic Valley NAACP for his work on multicultural issues. He is excited about the inter-generational energy at St. Paul's and helping to lead the congregation to more boldly serve the wider community and the world. His blog can be found at http://getoutoftheark.blogspot.com/ or you can find him on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nhevans827.

The Rev. Ted Babcock

Honorary Priest Associate

The Rev’d Ted Babcock was ordained deacon in June of 2001 and ordained priest in January 2002 by the Right Rev’d Andrew Smith, Bishop of Connecticut. Ted did his internship while at the General Theological Seminary at St. David's in the South Bronx, NY where he was actively involved in community organizing with the IAF. He served his curacy at Christ Church, Greenwich, CT where he was responsible for pastoral care for over 500 senior citizens.

In September of 2005 he was called to St. Andrew’s Shippensburg, PA as rector. He served there until September 2010 when Bishop Nathan D. Baxter called him to be his Canon to the Ordinary, the Bishop’s Executive Officer. Ted retired at the end of 2013, and was named Canon to the Ordinary, emeritus by Bishop Baxter.

After moving to Pittsburgh, Bishop McConnell invited Ted to become Diocesan Administrator. He served in that capacity for two years while serving as the interim rector St. Stephen’s in McKeesport, and St. Brendan’s in Franklin Park. Ted re-retired December of 2017.

Ted earned his BA with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan 1973, and his MA from the University of Virginia in 1974 in American Southern History (Slavery) where he was a Thomas Jefferson Fellow. In 1982 he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

After 26 years in the business world he attended and graduated from The General Theological Seminary in 2001. In 2009 He received his ThD from the Graduate Theological Foundation/Oxford University for his work in liturgy and history. In 2013 he was named an Oxford Foundation Fellow and continued his study of Baptism in the early church (40-200CE) at Oxford University in Oxford, UK.