The Rev. Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler

President/CEO, CARAVAN, an international peacebuilding ministry, appointed mission partner with The Episcopal Church, based out of the greater Chicago area, Illinois, USA

The Revd Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler is a US Episcopal priest, author, interfaith advocate and art curator. Having grown up in Senegal, West Africa, he has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe in leadership roles with The Episcopal/Anglican Church, Christian publishing and ecumenical relief and development agencies. 

Previously serving as the rector of two international churches, from 2003-2013 he was the Rector of St. John’s Church/Maadi in Cairo, Egypt, an historic international English-speaking Episcopal church with a congregation of over 35 nationalities from numerous faith traditions, primarily from the diplomatic, academic, NGO and business communities.

From 1993-1995 he served in Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa as the Rector of the St. George’s Episcopal Church, the only English-speaking church in this Muslim-majority country, with a congregation of over 30 nationalities. 

Currently based out of the greater Chicago area, as an Appointed Mission Partner with The Episcopal Church he serves as the President of CARAVAN, an international peacebuilding non-profit affiliated with The Episcopal Church that uses the arts to build bridges between the creeds and cultures of the Middle East and West.

  

Paul-Gordon is a Canon at All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt and has authored four books in the fields of Christian-Muslim relations, Global Christianity and the Middle East.

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Prior ministry roles have included serving in the arena of Christian publishing, such as SPCK in London, England where he was the Director of SPCK Worldwide, an historic international publishing ministry of the Church of England,

involved in the U.K. and throughout the Global South. He was also U.S. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/ Int’l Executive Vice President of IBS Publishing, an ecumenical Christian publishing, distribution and translation non-profit that has published the Bible in more than 500 languages worldwide.

Paul-Gordon has also served in the field of relief and development. From 1999-2003 he served as the President/CEO of Partners International, an international ecumenical Christian non-profit that exists to assist and empower indigenous faith-based development organizations in over 70 countries. 

He studied Theological/Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, IL, USA and at Chichester Theological College in West Sussex, England, and French at the Alliance Française in Paris, France. He is married to Lynne Chandler and together they have two grown children. 

More information on Paul-Gordon is available on the author website: www.paulgordonchandler.com .

The Rev. Mark D.W. Edington

Rector, Saint John’s Church, Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA, and Director, Amherst College Press

The Rev. Mark D.W. Edington is an ordained Episcopal priest, higher-education executive, social entrepreneur, writer, and editor. Appointed in 2014 as the founding director of the Amherst College Press, he has spearheaded the creation of a 54-college consortium supporting Lever Press, an open access, peer reviewed scholarly press. Prior to his appointment at Amherst he served as the senior executive officer of interdisciplinary research centers at Harvard, including the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory. His work in academic publishing has encompassed directing the publications program of an independent think tank focused on issues of international security and foreign policy, and as a consulting editor at Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Ordained in 2001, Mark served as the first Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College in The Memorial Church of Harvard University, living in residence as visiting scholar in Adams House. Subsequently appointed Associate Minister for Administration, he served as the chief operating officer of one of the largest and most influential university churches in the nation. In addition to undergraduate ministry, his responsibilities included serving as the point of contact between Memorial Church and the body of more than thirty chaplains from all denominations and faith traditions accredited to serve communities in the university, and oversight of the field work program for training seminarians. More recently, as rector of Saint John’s in Newtonville, Massachusetts, he has authored Bivocational: Returning to the Roots of Ministry (Church Publishing, 2018; www.bivocational.church), an exploration of alternatives to the received economic model of congregational life based on the expectation of a full-time, benefited professional as the ordained leader of a community. 

Mark serves as an officer or director of a number of non-profit organizations. Since 2014 he has been a trustee of Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan, where he sits on the Academic Affairs and Strategic Planning committees. From 2013-2016 he served as well as a director of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union, where his work encompassed service on the institution’s audit committee. As a member of the founding board of three NGOs, he has a deep commitment to civic engagement with foreign policy and interfaith engagement in both dialogue and service. A founding director of the 2Seeds Network, he was part of a team focused on creating a new path linking the need for strengthening ethically grounded leadership in the developed world with the need for improving self-sufficiency in the world's poorest countries. 

Mark writes frequently on issues at the intersection of public policy and religion. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other national publications. He has blogged on The Huffington Post and on WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and is a frequent commentator on New England Public Radio. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is active in the Religion and Foreign Policy program. 

Mark is a graduate of Albion College, where he received the A.B. in philosophy and political science summa cum laude, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa; the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Harvard Divinity School. He has studied in programs focused on European integration at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and on post-Cold War European security at Christian-Albrechts-Universität. He is married to Judith, a graduate of Albion College, Boston College, and Harvard Law School, who is Counsel in the Tax Department of Sullivan and Worcester, Boston. She is admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Illinois. 

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas

Rector, All Saints’ Church, Brooklyn, New York, USA

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas is rector of  All Saints' Church , a diverse and growing parish in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Steven has worked with the people of All Saints’ to build a Christian community of welcome and uncompromising love for all, and parish worship attendance and membership have almost tripled since his arrival in June 2011. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Episcopal Relief and Development and the Board of Governors of the Episcopal Church at Yale, and he facilitates the process of discernment for holy orders on the Diocese of Long Island’s Commission on Ministry. He is a candidate for the DPhil in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. While a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Steven co-chaired the New York Term Member Advisory Counci l. His opinion writing has recently appeared in  The New York Times ,   The Guardian , and  Quartz , and his essay on the political response to evil is featured in  Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader .  

Steven left his native Michigan to attend Yale University, where his involvement in campus chaplaincy helped nurture a call to ordained ministry. After receiving the MPhil degree in European Literature at the University of Cambridge, Steven moved to Lithuania, which his father’s family fled during the Second World War. He covered such historic events as Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and EU and NATO expansion as a Vilnius-based journalist for the BBC, Newsweek, and other international media. He returned to the United States to study at the General Theological Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood in June 2008 in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Following ordination, he served as Assistant to the Rector at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights. He and his husband, Jesse Lazar, were married at All Saints’ Church in 2014. Steven is an amateur cellist.  

The Very Rev. Dr. Benjamin Shambaugh

Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Portland, Maine.

The Very Rev. Dr. Benjamin Shambaugh's ministry has included living in and around New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, Paris, Barbados, and the National Parks, doing development work in Africa, Haiti, and an Indian Reservation in the American West, and leading study tours to the Holy Land. Ordained in 1988, he has served four congregations and has had a wide variety of mission experiences including time as a chaplain at the National Cathedral in Washington, as Canon Pastor to the American Cathedral in Paris, and his current position as Dean of St. Luke's Cathedral in Portland, Maine. 

In the Diocese of Maine, Dean Shambaugh has served as President of the Standing Committee, the Chair of the General Convention Deputation, and numerous other positions. In Portland, he has served on the boards of Preble Street, the Religious Coalition Against Discrimination, and St. Elizabeth's Jubilee, been adjunct faculty at Bangor Theological Seminary, and actively worked on a wide variety of issues facing the wider community. For this work he received Preble Street’s Board Member of the Year, Integrity Maine’s Founders Award, and a commendation from the Mayor and City Council of Portland. For 10 years before coming to Maine, he served the rector of St. John's Church, in Olney, Maryland a position which included oversight of a K-8 Episcopal School and African Palms, an organization which raised roughly $100,000 a year for human need in Africa. The four years he lived in Paris were a time of transition for the Convocation which included two deans, four bishops, and the beginnings of the dream which led to the missions and the full-time elected bishop the convocation has today.

He has a BA (with honors) in psychology from Northwestern University, an M.Div. from the General Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. from Seabury Western Seminary. He is married and has two grown children. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, and playing his tuba with the Maine Pops and other local bands.