St Francis Anglican Church
Spartanburg, South Carolina

Conference Speakers

  • The Rev. Calvin Robinson

    Fr Calvin Robinson is a priest with Old Catholic orders and Anglican patrimony. He regularly contributes in the media via print, online, television and radio, bringing Christianity back to the public conversation.

  • Fr Matt Kennedy

    The Reverend Matt Kennedy is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. He serves as rector of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, New York, and writes for Stand Firm, as well as co-hosts its podcast. Matt has been a longtime advocate for traditional Anglicanism in both the Episcopal Church and the ACNA. The Reverend Matt has six children, and is married to Anne.

  • Dr Jady Koch

    Dr. Jady Koch, Associate Minister at Christ Church, Mount Pleasant SC. A graduate of Washington & Lee University (2000) and Trinity School for Ministry (2007), The Rev. Dr. John D. “Jady” Koch earned his Doctorate in Systematic Theology at the University of Humboldt in Berlin, Germany in 2014. In addition to various articles and lectures, he is the author of The Distinction Between Law and Gospel as the Basis and Boundary of Theological Reflection, which was published in 2016.

  • Bishop Chandler Holder Jones

    The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones SSC is Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States and Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America

    A native of Surry County, North Carolina, he is a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv), with graduate studies at Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC

  • Fr James Gadomski

    Fr James Gadomski is a priest within the Episcopal Missionary Church. He runs the Barely Protestant YouTube channel, where he discusses and defends historic, Confessional Anglicanism within the Catholic Tradition. He is the rector of St Francis Anglican Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina. 

  • Dr Stephen Boyce

    Stephen holds a PhD in the area of canon and text from Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary. His focus of study was on the Gnostic texts and the canonical gospels for classwork and research.

    His dissertation was to do textual analysis on Codex H, covering the early patristic writings that contained readings from the LXX (Septuagint, or Greek Old Testament) and New Testament manuscripts.

  • Tripp Parker

    Tripp Parker is a 2007 graduate of Duke University with a BSE in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Philosophy. His undergraduate work focused on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind.

    For over 15 years he’s been at Microsoft and Amazon developing these technologies for everyday use in a variety of contexts. He holds five patents from his work there, and is passionate about our work as Christians being distinct and holy, as opposed to the way the world thinks about it.