The Rev. James Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, New York and was baptized in the Episcopal Church as a toddler. As a religion major at Oberlin College, he joined the United Methodist Church. He attended Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister on June 15, 1993—three days after marrying his wife, Mirabella Maeve. He served two small churches in southeastern Ohio for two and a half years before deciding to pursue a new career as a game designer. His daughter, Aurora Hope, was born on the same day in 1997 that his first published writing for Dungeons & Dragons appeared in print.
The family moved to Kent in 2000, when James took a job at Wizards of the Coast. In the last 25 years, James has written dozens of rulebooks, sourcebooks, adventures, art books, novels, short stories, and even poems for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering.
In 2015, James joined St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Kent, where he served on the Bishop’s Committee (including two years as Senior Warden) and as a lector, intercessor, preacher, and Eucharistic minister. He attended the College for Congregational Development in 2018–19, and started working as a CCD trainer in 2023. He began live-streaming Morning Prayer on Facebook every weekday at the start of the COVID pandemic and hasn’t stopped. In December 2024, he was ordained as a transitional deacon. He has served as vicar at Faith since February, first as deacon-in-charge and now as priest since his ordination on June 14.
James is passionate about preaching, the Daily Office, social justice, ministry with people who are experiencing homelessness, and the intersections between fantasy and spirituality.