Living the Faith of Nicea

The Venerable Andrew Brashier serves as the Archdeacon and Director of the Anglican Office of Education, Training, and Formation Directorate for the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy(JAFC). He is the former Rector of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Pelham, Alabama, former Dean of the Parish and Missions Deanery, and former Chancellor of the JAFC. ArchdeaconAndrew is a regular contributor to The North American Anglican, Anglican Compass, and The JAFCJournal and writes regularly about ministry, family worship, daily prayer, book reviews, family oratories, and the impact they can have in reigniting Anglicanism, along with the occasional poem. Brashierrecently republished Nowell’s Middle Catechism and previously republished Bishop John Jewel’s Treatises on the Holy Scriptures and Sacraments. The second edition of his book, A Faith for Generations, is now available and focuses on family devotions and private prayer in the Anglican tradition. Brashier has served on the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Governance Task Force since 2014 and lectured at the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion (USA) annual conference, Christian Legal Society national conference, diocesan convocations and synods, clergy andlay training seminars, and leading parish retreats on a number of topics.

Erin Giles serves as deacon alongside her husband Fr. Howard Giles III at Jesus the Good Shepherd Anglican Church in Henderson, NV, a parish of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. Her primary ministry for the past 20 years has been nurturing, discipling and homeschooling her six children. In addition, she teaches Biblical Greek and Primary students at the Homeschool Atrium of the Good Shepherd School Project and mentors catechists in her parish through the Anglican Catechist Training School of the Diocese of San Joaquin. She also serves as the Canonical Exam Coordinator for the ACNA West Board of Examining Chaplains and on the leadership team of the Clergy Wives’ Retreat in the Diocese of San Joaquin. Erin holds an A.B. in Politics, Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University, where she was baptized on Easter Day in 1994 at the Episcopal Church at Princeton. She also holds a Masters of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Masters of Arts in Religion in Christian Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union, both located in Berkeley, CA. Above all, Erin loves her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who revealed Himself to her even in a home not dedicated to Him and has continued to guide and uphold her all the days of her life.

Jessica Snell is a freelance editor who loves helping authors polish their books till they shine! She is also a writer and a regular contributor to Biola University’s Advent and Lent Projects. Her work has appeared in Focus on the Family, Christ and Pop Culture, Touchstone magazine, and more. She’s a longtime Altar Guild member and attends All Saints Long Beach (Diocese of Western Anglicans) with her husband and their four children. In her free time, she loves to read and knit. Her website isjessicasnell.com.

Canon Rev. Dr. Stephen Gauthier is a priest and canon theologian of the Diocese of the Upper Midwest, where he assists the bishop on matters of theology and liturgy, and helps to prepare candidates for ordination. Cn. Stephen is also the Director of Formation for the Greenhouse Movement and serves both as the primary teacher in Saint Paul’s House of Formation and as co-host of the Word and Table podcast.

Fr. Wesley Owens serves as Rector of Incarnation Church in State College, PA – a young church plant serving the students and surrounding community of Penn State University. Raised in Richmond, VA, he migrated into Anglicanism as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. He holds a Master of Theology (MTh) degree from the University of Oxford, where he completed a dissertation on monastic renewal in contemporary Anglican mission. Following his ordination, he served for three years as curate at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee, FL, before accepting the call to plant a church at Penn State. Informed by extensive ministry to Gen-Z and Millennials, Fr. Wesley’s desire is to equip the Church for the challenge of forming the next generation of resilient disciples in our Post-Christian climate of loneliness, virtuality, anxiety, and expressive individualism.

Fr. Tanie Guy has been married for 39 years and has one daughter. He came to salvation in Christ on Easter Sunday in 1983. He has served in many capacities at his home congregations and supported their missions efforts. In 2000 he founded, along with his wife, Forget-Me-Not Ministries. Their purpose is to serve God’s frontline warriors, across denominations and missions boards, around the world. They come alongside missionaries and pastors right where they are called and while they are on furlough here in the US, providing pastoral care, mentoring, teaching and encouragement. Due to the active war, they are partnered with many local churches, missionaries, and missions boards to provide humanitarian aid, medicine, and shelter in addition to providing pastoral care to volunteers, soldiers, and chaplains. After many years of ignoring the call to ordained ministry, Fr. Guy surrendered to the call and was ordained a Transitional Deacon in the Jurisdiction of Armed Forces Chaplains on January 17, 2024, and to the Priesthood on August 8, 2024. When not in Ukraine, he assists at the Church of the Ascension with Bishop Darryl Fitzwater in the Missionary Diocese of All Saints.

Dr. Erica G. Jarrett is a priest’s wife, a mother, and a family doctor. She works alongside her husband, Fr. Michael Jarrett, in Harlingen, TX, where they founded and have been serving as missionaries with Trinity on the Border, a chapel and outreach mission serving Christ along the South Texas/Mexico border since 2015.