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Jordan Hylden

The Rev. Jordan Hylden, ThD is Associate Rector for Christian Education at St. Martin's, Houston. Previously, he served churches in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Dallas, and as Canon Theologian for the diocese of Dallas. He has served as a General Convention deputy and on TEC's Task Force for Communion Across Difference. His doctoral work focused on democracy and authority in Catholic social thought. He and his wife, the Rev. Emily Hylden, make their home in Houston with their three boys Charles, Donnie, and Jacob.

Jesus the Critic

Inspired by the 2023 film, "The Critic," Jordan Hylden diagnoses our instinct to criticize as a defense mechanism. When we lay it down, we're able to receive more freely grace and mercy.

To Trust in God Completely

Martin Rinkert was called as a pastor in the small town of Eilenberg, Germany in 1618, just as the Thirty Years’ War was beginning. ...

Choosing Life Together, after Dobbs

By Jordan Hylden  I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly. — John 10:10 The late Bishop Thomas Shaw, formerly Bishop of...

Crisis and the Common Good

In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World. By Jake Meador. InterVarsity Press, pp. 200. $23. Review by Jordan Hylden In so many ways,...

J.I. Packer and the Heritage of Anglican Theology

The Heritage of Anglican Theology. By J.I. Packer. Crossway. Pp. 372 $39.99. Review by Jordan Hylden When J.I. Packer died last summer, he left behind a mountain...

Learning from England: Lessons in Church Growth

By Jordan Hylden What makes a church grow? If the recent polling by Gallup is any indication, there are many church leaders asking that question these...

After the Bp. Love Trial: Does the Episcopal Church Welcome Us?

By Jordan Hylden As vocations director in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, I talk with a lot of young people discerning a call to ordained...

Decline is a Choice

By Jordan Hylden Like everyone else, I found the 2019 parochial report statistics very sobering reading. As David Goodhew summarized, TEC has lost about 40...

The Work of the Priest: A Conversation

The struggle to properly balance the contemplative and the active virtues is not new to modern American life. St. Gregory the Great discussed the need for both in his classic

The Government on His Shoulders

The possibility of genuine politics begins with the first Christmas, with the Incarnation. It is finally and only here that we see there might actually be a peaceable Prince of all the world.