Maggie Taliaferro is a trainer for Education for Ministry (EfM), and the focus lead for their Communications Task Force. Mary Ann Patterson graduated from EfM in 2009. She worked at School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee for 11 years as communications director and editor of the Sewanee Theological Review. Kevin Goodman is the executive director of the Education for Ministry (EfM) program. He has served as a mentor and trainer for EfM for over thirty years, and is an ordained priest. He has served as Associate Rector at All Saints’ Ravenswood and Associate Dean of St. James Cathedral. James F. Turrell teaches liturgy at the School of Theology of the University of the South, where he also serves as dean. He has served on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, where he led a committee that revised the rites for the catechumenate in the Book of Occasional Services. He is a priest of the Diocese of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.
“For half a century, EfM has provided a tremendous opportunity for Episcopalians to gather in community for learning, formation, and theological reflection. As the world around us changes, I am grateful that we can continue counting on EfM to form us so powerfully in the faith that sustains and guides us.” * Sean Rowe, 28th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church *