Staff & Contacts
The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D. | Executive Director and Publisher
Fr. Olver is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation. A priest since 2006, he was the assistant rector at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas (2006-13) and has served widely in the Episcopal Church in diocesan, national, and international capacities. Like the eighth editor of The Living Church, H. Boone Porter, Fr. Olver is a liturgical scholar who takes up this post after having served for nearly a decade (2014-23) as a professor at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, where he remains Senior Lecturer in Liturgics. He earned a B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College, an M.Div. from Duke University Divinity School (magna cum laude), and a Ph.D. from Marquette University and is a Honorary Fellow in the Department of Religion and Theology at Durham University, UK. He has lectured widely in the area of early Christian liturgy and the development of the Book of Common Prayer and has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Anglican Theological Review, Nova et Vetera, Studia Liturgica, Ecclesia Orans, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Studia Patristica, and the Harvard Theological Review. His first monograph, The Origin of the Roman Canon Missae, is forthcoming from Brepols and he is writing a volume with Nathan Jennings entitled Turning Points in Prayer Book History: Making Sense of the American Tradition (Seabury). He is working on a history of the Western Mass lectionary. His wife, Kristen, is a practicing therapist. They were married in 2001 and have two children. He is a non-stipedendiary assistant priest at Zion Episcopal Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Explore his recent articles at The Living Church.
For more on his academic publications, explore his profile on Academia.edu.
Sara Schultz | Director of Development and Marketing
Sara Schultz is a native Texan who currently resides in New England with her husband, Graham. She brings more than a decade of experience in development, outreach, and strategic operations within Episcopal and academic institutions. Sara previously served at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas as program director for local outreach and, before that, supported a $35 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, where she discovered a vocation to connect community needs with the generous gifts of God’s people. Most recently, she served as Executive Assistant to the Dean at Boston University School of Theology. Sara enjoys rambles through New England with Graham and their dachshund, Norm, arranging wildflowers cut from the gardens surrounding their 275-year-old farmhouse in rural Rhode Island, and hosting visiting family and friends.
Editorial
The Rev. Mark Michael | Editor in Chief
Phone: 607-544-4300
The Rev. Mark Michael has edited The Living Church since 2019, and founded The Living Word, TLC’s preaching resource, in 2020. He has reported widely on global Anglicanism and writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry. Native of a small town in Western Maryland, he studied history at Duke University and theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Mark was ordained to the priesthood in 2006, and has served as a school chaplain and teacher, and as rector of Episcopal parishes in Maryland, New York, and Virginia, as well as having ministry experience in England, Ireland, and India. He is the rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland, where he serves with his wife, the Rev. Allison Michael, a Lutheran pastor and scholar of medieval theology. They have two sons. He enjoys travel, gardening, hunting, and cider pressing.
Amber Noel | Director of Programs
Amber D. Noel, M.Div., directs the public programs of The Living Church, including the podcast, events, and the Partner program. Her professional life includes ministry, the arts, education, and business. She enjoys nurturing institutional health and leading creative initiatives for the flourishing of God’s people. Amber is a graduate of Duke Divinity School (M.Div. ’12) and has been a Living Church Institute Fellow at Virginia Theological Seminary as artist-in-residence (’19). She writes short fiction and works for the stage, is a family member and friend, enjoys sci-fi, intense films, amaro, and porches, and is Auntie Amber to a big handful of godchildren. She lives in beautiful Atlanta.
Bliss Lemmon | Art Director
Bliss Lemmon directs the art and layout of the magazine and overall brand of The Living Church. Bliss received a B.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design where she studied Industrial Design. Bliss previously worked as the art director at Nashotah House Theological Seminary and has worked as a consultant and designer for numerous churches and dioceses, including Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) for 10+ years. Bliss and her husband, the Rev. Ryan Boettcher, live in Austin, TX with their four children where he is an associate rector at an Episcopal church, Resurrection South Austin. She enjoys rowdy time with her kids, eating amazing food in and around Austin, and long bike rides.
Douglas LeBlanc | Associate Editor
Douglas LeBlanc first learned reverence for God as an acolyte at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Through the charismatic renewal, L’Abri Fellowship, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, he grew in understanding how Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection applied to his life, and became an evangelical Episcopalian. Douglas married Monica Bell in October 1988. In the years since their wedding, the LeBlancs have lived in Colorado Springs, Kansas City, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. They are members of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Henrico, Virginia. They have looked after six cats in their married life, most recently two tuxedos: Mittens and FN-2187 (Finn).
Caleb Maglaya Galaraga | Reporter
Caleb Maglaya Galaraga is the Episcopal Church reporter of The Living Church. He has written about faith, spirituality, and religion in the Americas and Asia, and his work has appeared in Christianity Today, Religion Unplugged, Broadview Magazine (formerly The United Church Observer), Presbyterian Outlook, and the news services of The Episcopal Church and The United Methodist Church. He runs the newsletter On Speaking Life. He is an alumnus of the Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York City.
Bonnie Scott | Associate Editor for Products and Book Reviews
The Rev. Calvin Lane, Ph.D. | Editor of Covenant
Ordained in 2011, Fr. Lane is the author of two books on the Reformation era and has taught and supervised graduate theses for colleges and seminaries, including serving as Affiliate Professor at Nashotah House. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2013. Alongside his work for TLC, Cal currently serves as Associate Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio. His writing has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Reformation & Renaissance Review and Anglican & Episcopal History. He has held research fellowships in the U.S. and the U.K., including grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. In 2022 he was the Meeter Fellow at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and his service to the church includes a term on the General Board of Examining Chaplains (2018-24). Originally from North Carolina, Cal is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and Nashotah House. His Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa. He is happily married to Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane, Associate Professor at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana (next door to Dayton on the campus of Earlham College). They have two children, and Cal is an assistant scoutmaster in his son’s troop.
Richard J. Mammana Jr. | Archivist
Richard Mammana is a lay church historian, author, beekeeper, father, husband, and communicant of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He serves as Archivist of The Living Church Foundation and began the Anglicanhistory.org website in 1999.
Correspondents Domestic: Neva Rae Fox, Christine Havens, Jeffrey MacDonald, Richard J. Mammana Jr., Susan Rountree Australasia: Robyn Douglass; Canada: Sue Careless; Caribbean: Melissa Williams-Sambrano; East Africa: Jesse Masai; Latin America: Emilie Smith; United Kingdom: Rosie Dawson
Business
Candace Holtzen | Business Manager
As the Business Manager for The Living Church, Candace manages human resources, and addresses business, marketing, finance, print product and customer service inquiries. She has served as a parish administrator, communications officer for the Diocese of Milwaukee, and executive secretary to the academic dean of Gordon College, and has a master’s degree in occupational therapy. She and her husband, the Rev. Thomas Holtzen, Ph.D., professor of historical and systematic theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, live in Wisconsin. Candace’s favorite job was raising their four children.
The Rev. Rebecca Terhune | Advertising Manager
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