Sister Hannah Winkler, CSM has been a member of the Community of St. Mary, Southern Province, for the past ten years. She made her life profession in January 2021 and became Prioress of the Community in January 2023. She helps manage the Community’s website, social media, and online gift shop and promotes convent events online. She has been active in preaching at a variety of Episcopal churches and schools both in-person and online, and travels out of state (and out of the country) to preach, give retreats, and teach adult forums at various churches. Prior to entering Community, she graduated with her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nutritional sciences in 2008 and 2011 from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, respectively. She became a licensed Registered Dietitian in 2011. She graduated from the University of the South with a Master of Arts in Theology in December 2020. She is looking forward to the ways God will use her diverse backgrounds as part of the Community’s various ministries.

The Not So Reverend Tom Gildemeister takes his relationship with the Eternal, Cosmic Christ seriously so that he doesn’t have to take himself too seriously at all. He is: jester, joker, farmer, friends with Jesus, mystic, poet, preacher, hiker, nomad, art historian, outraged and weary, bs artist, nut-case, alcoholic (recovering), teacher, pray-er, philanthropist, technological illiterate, singer (occasionally on-key), dancing fool, lover of the natural and unnatural world in which we live. His wife Julia, who died just before Christmas 2023, remains in his life in a very real way along with his children, their spouses, grandbaby, sister and his parish families. Ordained in the United Methodist Church, former yard-man, golf course greens crew, political consultant, real estate developer, chaplain (Egleston Children’s Hospital), senior minister at Cooks, Christ, and Belle Meade UMC, alumni director of the Candler School of Theology (Emory University), and director of a residential program for schizophrenics. Tom studied at Montgomery Bell Academy, University of Virginia B.A. (Echols Scholar), Candler School of Theology M.Div. (Woodruff Fellow), San Francisco Theological Seminary, Sewanee School of Letters M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

Andy Van Grinsven is a Nashville-native, father, and husband. As a strength coach, Andy helps folks build new muscle and discover just how strong they can possibly be. Through strength training, one can become healthier, more physically capable, and live a longer, more fulfilling life. When he’s not in the gym, Andy likes being in nature, reading books, and playing novice mechanic, tinkering on his cars.