Sarah Dylan Breuer appointed executive director of Province I
Episcopal News Service. May 27, 2010 [052710-02]
Sarah Dylan Breuer has been appointed to serve as executive director of the Episcopal Church's Province I, effective July 1.
Breuer succeeds Susan Ohlidal, who has resigned to become the full-time canon for ministry development in the Diocese of Vermont.
Province I includes 7 Episcopal dioceses throughout New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts.
Breuer is a member of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council, having been elected by General Convention 2009.
She served on the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, created to prepare General Convention 2006 to respond to the Windsor Report, a document published in 2004 that includes recommendations on how the Anglican Communion can maintain unity amid differing viewpoints on theological interpretation and human sexuality issues. She has also served on the New Congregations Team of the 20/20 Task Force in the 2000-2003 triennium and as an adult member of the design team for the "Count Me Faithful" youth event at General Convention 2003.
Breuer has been editor of The Witness magazine and served as president of Gathering the Next Generation (GTNG), the network for "Generation X" Episcopalians, and with John de Beer she created the adult formation curriculum series Klesis and its "open source" style of distribution, which has led to it being adopted by congregations in nations, languages, and age groups from Maine to Melbourne.
Breuer has an Master of Philosophy degree in biblical studies from the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland and a Candidate in Philosophy degree in early church history from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has also engaged in advanced Anglican studies at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her writing includes the opening chapter, "God's Justice: A biblical view," in The Justice Project (Baker Books, 2009), and a series on 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Philippians for Book 5 in the Reflections series from Church House Publishing in the U.K. (January, 2009).
Her lectionary blog, www.sarahlaughed.net, which offers reflections on biblical readings from the Revised Common Lectionary and the lectionary of the Episcopal Church, was named among "The Best Spiritual Blogs on the Internet" by Beliefnet.com, and her writing has appeared in such publications as The Witness and The Christian Century.
As a longtime U2 fan, she was pleased to contribute six meditations to the book "Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog" (Cowley Publications, 2003), and she created the first U2charist, which was held in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 17, 2004, hosted by the Without Walls network for authentically Anglican emerging church liturgy.
Dylan is a member of the Diocese of Massachusetts and lives in West Roxbury.
She will be introduced at the Province I synod on June 4 in Concord, New Hampshire.