Conference Speakers

The Very Rev. Dr. Paul F. M. Zahl received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1972, his M. Phil. from the University of Nottingham in 1974, and his Dr.theol. from Tuebingen in 1994.  He has been ordained in the Episcopal Church since 1975, serving parishes in Manhattan, Westchester County, Charleston (SC), Birmingham (AL) and Chevy Chase (MD); and was Dean/President of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA.  Dr. Zahl has written several books; co-authored two others; and contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews.  He and his wife, Mary, are the parents of three adult sons, John, David and Simeon.

Dr. Zahl's authored works include Grace in Practice: A Theology of E
veryday Life;
 The First Christian: Universal Truth in the Teachings of Jesus; Five Women of the English Reformation; A Short Systematic Theology; The Collects of Thomas Cranmer with C.F. Barbee; The Protestant Face of Anglicanism and Who Will Deliver Us?, any of which are available here.

The Rev. John Zahl is associate rector of Church of the Holy Cross (Episcopal), Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.  He was born in New York City and now lives in Charleston with his wife Deirdre and greyhound, Calhoun.  


He received his B.A in Philosophy from Kenyon College, and attended seminary at Wycliffe Hall
, Oxford (UK).  John is also an avid vinyl (record) enthusiast, spending much of his free time collecting obscure disco records.  He secretly believes there is a point of intersection between the music of the late 1970's and the English Reformation.


Jeff Hual
 is a regular contributor to the Mockingbird Blog and the organizer of this and last year's Mini-Conferences in Pensacola, Florida.  
A Pensacola native, Jeff has taught adult Christian formation classes at Christ Church Parish since 2008.  Prior to this, at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, he served as a small group bible study leader, Alpha table leader and noonday prayer lay minister.  Jeff and his wife Kerry live in Gulf Breeze and have one son, Jacob, Age 8.