All Saints Episcopal Church

The Rev. Daniel Green

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Daniel was born in Riverside, California and raised in California, Indiana, and Vermont. His childhood Christian formation was in a congregation of the Disciples of Christ. After drifting away from the church in early adolescence, he rediscovered it in the context of working for peace and justice in Central America in the mid-1980s. From his youth he has sought a balanced life, integrating social entrepreneurship and critique, ecological vision and responsibility, traditional spiritual discipline, and physical and emotional healing. He has worked as a political activist, community organizer, carpenter, farmer, and gardener, and lived in a variety of intentional communities. He loves reading, writing, singing, dancing, manual work and being outside. He is married to Meg Tinsley, a writer and psychotherapist, and they have a three-year-old daughter.

Daniel studied religion, history and philosophy at Williams College and the California Institute of Integral Studies. After six years of residential practice and study at the San Francisco Zen Center, he began attending Episcopal churches in San Francisco in 1994. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, where he was active as a liturgical minister, preacher, teacher, and served on the vestry. He received a M.Div. degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in May, 2005. He was ordained a priest at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in December of that year, and immediately came to All Saints, Carmel as Assisting Priest. He worked with the Vestry and the Interim Pastor to guide the parish through the interim period, and was invited to stay on as Associate Rector by the Rev. Richard Matters.

Vision for ministry: Building up Christ's body by serving and leading in prayer, worship, study, work and play, living a faith that is intellectually and emotionally honest, socially conscious, and draws inspiration from Scripture, the communion of saints, contemplative prayer and Creation.