Marc is a native of Hampton, Virginia, the oldest continually settled English-speaking community in the New World.Raised in Maryland, he attended Roman Catholic parochial grade school, St. Paul Latin High School, graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a B.A. in English literature, specializing in Elizabethan drama, with minors in both philosophy and history.He took a Master’s from West Virginia University, thesis on Bernard Shaw, and completed doctoral studies in Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.As an academic, Marc served as Instructor in English literature at Miami University of Ohio, Assistant Professor of literature at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and while he was a student at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he taught oral interpretation there and speech communication at Boston University.
While in graduate school at WVU, Marc began worshiping at the Episcopal Church and was received at Emmanuel, Baltimore.Before coming to St. John’s in 1999, Marc served as Deacon-in-Charge, then Rector of All Saints, Oakley in this diocese, and Rector of the Church of the Redeemer in the Diocese of Ohio.
Marc has published poetry, numerous religious book reviews, and given scholarly papers on rhetoric, J.R.R. Tolkien and V.S. Naipaul.Widely respected among his colleagues, he was elected three times to the board of the Washington Episcopal Clergy Association (WECA).He has served as a member, then chair of the Commission on Ministry in this diocese, at Bishop Haines request, transforming the Process Toward Ordination and Ministry from a screening to a discernment process.And at Bishop Chane’s request, he as returned as a member of the Commission on Ministry, as well as maintaining his membership on the Committee on Constitution and Canons.With the Rev. Constance Jenkins, Marc is co-convener of the Region 6 clergy.Through continuing education, he has extensive training and expertise in congregational development, group facilitation, and conflict dynamics.He has completed the Trinity Wall Street 4-year Clergy Leadership Project.
As he told the search committee and Vestry before being called here, Marc is zealous for the Lord’s house.An exceptionally gifted preacher, worship drives his life.In addition to his normal pastoral duties, Marc is an experienced spritual director.His own life in Christ is supported by centering prayer, the daily office, the love and devotion of parishioners, past and present, by close friends, lay and ordained, who hold him in prayer, and by the professional and pastoral care of his spiritual director, colleagues, diocesan staff, Canons, and Bishop.
Among the things which do not appear on his resume are: acting roles in high school and college; fencing medals in foil, epee, and sabre; singing all four parts at choir, occasional musical composition; talent as a cook; inane sense of humor; love of Gilbert and Sullivan; and devotion to his cats, Scratch and Sniff
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