Mark Allen Quay

After serving as the Rector (Senior Pastor) of two different churches in Alabama for 11 years (St. Peter's, Birmingham, and St. Paul's, Tuscaloosa), I now teach science at American Christian Academy in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Formerly, I taught in the Anglican Studies Program at Beeson Divinity School. I’m the former Professor of Ministry Studies and Dean of the Anglican School of Ministry, which merged with Trinity School for Ministry in 2013. Prior to that I was a high school science teacher and Rector of two small Anglican parishes (All Saints, Hot Springs Village and St. Thomas, Little Rock, both in Arkansas) and I also planted an Anglican church in St. Louis County, Missouri (Holy Trinity).

I’m a retired, prior-enlisted active duty and Reserve Air Force officer, serving mostly in the fields of intelligence and health care, though I spent my last three years as a chaplain before I was medically retired.

I have more than 40 years of teaching and pastoral experience in Anglican and Presbyterian churches in the US, Germany, and Rwanda. I’m canonically resident in the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincies of the Anglican Church of North America.

According to my wife, Jani, I have entirely too much education. I’ve attended several schools, including the Defense Language Institute, the University of Cambridge, Covenant Theological Seminary, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I hold two doctorates—one in Christian education and one in leadership.

Jani and I have three adult children and seven grandchildren. I enjoy hiking, especially in the Appalachians of Alabama, Celtic music, Medieval history, reading the Inklings, and watching bad sci-fi movies. I’m a published, award-winning poet and essayist.

Having said all this, my central passion is God the Holy Trinity: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.