{"id":70,"date":"2023-09-04T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:55:39","slug":"new-vicar-transition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"Our Vicar"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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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\u2014three 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<\/i>\u00a0appeared in print.<\/div>\r\n
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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\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Magic: The Gathering<\/i>.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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In 2015, James joined St. Columba\u2019s Episcopal Church in Kent, where he served on the Bishop\u2019s 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\u201319, 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\u2019t 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.<\/div>\r\n
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James is passionate about preaching, the Daily Office, social justice, ministry with people who are experiencing homelessness, and the intersections between fantasy and spirituality.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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