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Bryan Owen

Originally from Tunica, Mississippi, Fr. Bryan Owen was baptized and raised in the United Methodist Church. A hunger for liturgical worship and the weekly celebration of Holy Eucharist led him into the Episcopal Church, where he was confirmed on the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Fr. Bryan earned an M.T.S. from Vanderbilt Divinity School, a Ph.D. in Religion, Ethics, and Society from Vanderbilt University’s Graduate Department of Religion, and a certificate in Anglican Studies from the School of Theology at the University of the South. After ordination, he served as rector of the Church of the Incarnation in West Point, Mississippi and as Canon for Parish Ministry at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Jackson, Mississippi. He is currently rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

A husband and a father of two children, he enjoys cooking in the wok and on the Big Green Egg, watching Daredevil and The Walking Dead, and listening to Foo Fighters.

Facing death with Christian hope

Fr. Bryan Owen
October 30, 2017
Commentary
If Jesus died was raised to life, then something akin to overturning the law of gravity has been unleashed.

Window into a larger world

Fr. Bryan Owen
September 12, 2017
Commentary
After a year of worship, I embraced the Nicene Creed as a beautiful expression of truths at the heart of the gospel.

Gracious acceptance

Fr. Bryan Owen
July 14, 2017
Liturgy
Our post-Communion prayer affirms that we aren’t merely tolerated by God. No, we are graciously accepted.

Ash Wednesday: Confronting sin and mortality

Fr. Bryan Owen
March 1, 2017
Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
Ash Wednesday confronts us with two truths we probably don’t like to dwell on, truths our culture encourages us to minimize, deny, or simply ignore.

Is Advent a penitential season?

Fr. Bryan Owen
November 29, 2016
Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
Many times over the years I’ve heard Episcopalians insist that Advent is not a penitential season.

Faith and hope after the Louisiana flood

Fr. Bryan Owen
September 6, 2016
Commentary
A few days after the flooding started, I met an elderly African American lady who had lost everything. She looked me in the eyes and said: “I think God wants to use this to bring us all together.”

Hope in the midst of evil

Fr. Bryan Owen
July 11, 2016
Commentary
One word has kept coming into my mind since the shootings, which we don't hear from many Episcopal pulpits: "demonic."

‘That they may be one’: Longing for Christian unity

Fr. Bryan Owen
May 20, 2016
Commentary
Our Lord’s prayer on the night before he died remains painfully unfulfilled.
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