Miguel Escobar is a writer whose work explores Christianity’s complicated and conflicted relationship with money, wealth, and poverty. He is the author of The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today and is currently working on a second book exploring how money comes up in Jesus’ last week of life. Miguel earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 2007 and has served in a variety of roles in the Episcopal Church since. He was communications assistant to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, managing program director for the Episcopal Church Foundation, and director of Anglican Studies at Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the transitional diaconate in January 2025 and now serves as curate at San Andrés Episcopal Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He is fulfilling a lifelong dream of serving in Spanish at the Latino congregation of San Andrés. Miguel grew up in the Texas Hill Country and attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where he studied the Roman Catholic social justice tradition, Latin American liberation theologies, and minored in Spanish. He serves on several boards, including Episcopal Relief & Development and Forward Movement.
In October 2017, in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in US history, Bishop Ian Douglas of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut took part in a panel interview as a member of Bishops Against Gun Violence. There, Douglas spoke frankly of the troubling financial connections between the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and the arms […]
