Roger Owens
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Roger Owens is Co-Pastor, with his wife Ginger Thomas, of Duke Memorial
United Methodist Church in Durham, North Carolina. Roger holds a Ph.D. in
theology from Duke University, where he also received his M.Div. Prior to
coming to Duke Memorial in 2008, Roger served a church for three years in
rural North Carolina. He has taught and lectured in the areas of practical
theology, leadership, and spirituality. He serves on the faculty of The
Upper Room’s Academy for Spiritual Formation, an ecumenical two-year
spiritual formation program for clergy and laity. He is the author of The
Shape of Participation: A Theology of Church Practices (Cascade Press,
2010), was called “this decades best work in ecclesiology” in The Christian
Century. He is also co-editor of Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven’s
Earthly Life (University Press of Kentucky, 2009). His writing has appeared
in several publications including The Christian Century, Currents in
Theology and Mission, and The Journal of Religious Ethics. He is currently
working on his next book, Give Me a Word: The Art of Receiving Spiritual
Direction, which will be published by Paraclete Press. Roger and Ginger are
the parents of Simeon, Silas, and Mary Clare.
