In addition to serving as priest in charge of St. Gregory’s, Stephanie is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading voices on 21st-century mission and ministry. Before joining our community, she spent nearly a decade heading the denomination’s work on evangelism, racial and social justice, creation care, and church planting as Canon to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, and most recently served as Canon in Residence at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York. Before that, she was canon for mission vitality in the Diocese of Long Island, and she founded The Crossing, a groundbreaking church community within St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston.
Beyond her parish work, Stephanie preaches, teaches, and consults with congregations and dioceses across the church and the wider ecumenical world. She taught and directed programs in mission and reconciliation at General Theological Seminary, and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from General Seminary for her contributions to the Christian faith and the wider church. She is the author of Radical Welcome: Embracing God, the Other, and the Spirit of Transformation (2006), The Episcopal Way with Eric Law (2015), The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community (2021), and Church Tomorrow?: What the ‘Nones’ and ‘Dones’ Teach Us About the Future of Faith (2026).
Stephanie has held leadership roles across the Episcopal Church, including chaplain to the House of Bishops, co-chair of the Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism, and chief architect of the legislation that created Mission Enterprise Zones. Her current work explores what younger generations who have left or never entered the church can teach us about the spiritual pathways and communities still to come. She began her career as an award-winning religion journalist in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is a graduate of Wake Forest University, Harvard Divinity School, and Episcopal Divinity School. A native of Frankfort, Kentucky, she moves to San Francisco from New York with her husband, Albert deGrasse, and their two cats.