Musician and scholar April Stace will join the affiliate faculty of General Theological Seminary in the fall, teaching “The Arts as Pastoral Care.”
Stace earned her PhD in religion and culture from the Catholic University of America and has taught at Virginia Theological Seminary, Hartford Seminary, and Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
She has served as a hospital chaplain and minister of worship and the arts at the Riverside Church in the City of New York. Her newest book is the monograph Secular Music, Sacred Space: Secular Music in Evangelical Worship Services (Lexington Books).
On her Twitter profile, Stace describes herself as a grunge harpist, and she has played in a wide variety of settings.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
