Vestry Notes

Vestry Notes

Vestry Notes: November 8th 2026

This coming Sunday promises to be one exceptional day!  The Rt Rev Dr Lynn Elizabeth Walker, SSB, FRSA will be celebrating an Ecumenical Service for this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience with us as she shares her story of courage, determination and sheer grace.  We each have a story and our story has power – be prepared to be in awe!

Mother Lynn lives in upper Manhattan with her spouse Francesca and their three cats and enjoys competitive ballroom dance and travelling to Buffalo to visit her family whenever convenient. She is a member of the Orthodox Society of Saint Basil, and she teaches philosophy at Dominican University in Blauvelt, NY.  She has many years’ experience working with nonprofit agencies in New York City providing housing and support services for LGBTQIA+ youths and for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Her academic interests include ecclesial history, military history, medieval literature, monasticism, and late Victorian crime literature.  She is the author of Forward! Thoughts of a Trans Woman on the Christian Journey (Wipf and Stock 2024).  Copies of her book will be available if you are interested in purchasing one that I am sure she will sign for you!

Lynn serves in the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America as Ecumenical Officer and as Bishop. She has served parishes in New Jersey, Western New York, and New York City. Our liturgy for this service will be a combination of our tradition and hers.  It will be one that will open our minds and hearts in new and exciting ways and I invite you to share in the discovery.  Join in with a big Redeemer welcome for Bishop Walker!

Colleen Hintz for the vestry.