Academics
J. DOUGLAS MCGLYNN
John M. Allin Professor of Homiletics
Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Missouri Valley College, A.B. (Magna cum Laude) 1960
Entrance Fellow, Federated Theological Faculty, University of Chicago, 1960-61
The General Theological Seminary, M.Div, 1963
Asbury Theological Seminary, D.Min., 1988
Father McGlynn has divided his years as a priest between exercising parish ministry and teaching others to do so. After his priestly ordination, only 17 days after reaching the requisite canonical age of 24, he served a two-year training curacy in Kansas City Missouri. He then proceeded to serve as Rector of five parishes, two in Missouri, one in Kansas, and one in Honolulu – he likes to quip that “After all, someone has to bear the cross in that climate!” The zenith of his parish ministry was his thirteen years at the Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, which under his leadership became a strong parish with worship often described as a remarkable combination of Catholic Order, biblical preaching and a measure of charismatic freedom. As a teacher he has demonstrated considerable versatility, teaching New Testament to undergraduates at Missouri State University, Liturgics at Trinity School for Ministry and Homiletics at Nashotah House. He sometimes quips that he is a “Jack of All Trades and Master of None.” Some of his friends are courteous enough to disagree.
Fr. McGlynn has served in almost every capacity in diocesan ministry – as chair of Commissions on Ministry, President of Standing Committees, deputy to five General Conventions, Examining Chaplain and more. He has for twenty years been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders (SAMS). In 2005 he was named Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Jos in the Church of Nigeria.
He and his wife Ana will celebrate fifty years of marriage this summer. They have two adult sons and one granddaughter.
Fr. McGlynn is an almost lifelong student of the War Between the States, and an inveterate lover of hymns and hymnody.
