Dean of Grace Cathedral to Speak at St. Timothy's, Danville

The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, will preach at the 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 11:00 a.m. services on Sunday, July 24 at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, located at 1550 Diablo Road in Danville. All are welcome.

Dean Shaw was installed as the eighth Dean of Grace Cathedral on November 6, 2010. She is responsible for the overall vision and mission of the Cathedral, for overseeing the spiritual life of the Cathedral, and for giving leadership to the Cathedral community, in collaboration with the Chapter (the senior management team) and Trustees (the Cathedral board).

Dr. Shaw joined Grace Cathedral from the University of Oxford. At Oxford, she was Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College and taught history and theology at the university for sixteen years. She is also Canon Theologian of Salisbury Cathedral, is an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and has served as Theological Consultant to the Church of England’s House of Bishops.

Dr. Shaw read Modern History at Regent’s Park College, Oxford (BA 1985, MA 1991), and Theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988), and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She received an honorary doctorate from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a Fellow of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastic community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Shaw’s interests include the Enlightenment, modern religious history, and issues in gender and sexuality. She has published several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale University Press, 2007) and Octavia, Daughter of God (Jonathan Cape, 2011). She has written numerous articles in scholarly journals. She edited Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition (with Alan Kreider; Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999) and The Call for Women Bishops (with Harriet Harris; afterword by Marilyn McCord Adams; London: SPCK, 2004). She is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and the Church Times.