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The Reverend Christopher L. Epperson, Rector
The Reverend Christopher “Chris” Epperson has been called by the vestry to become the 35th rector of Bruton Parish Church. Fr. Epperson, 41, has been rector of St. Columba’s Chapel in Middletown, R.I., since 2006. Before leading St. Columba’s, Fr. Epperson served as associate rector at St. John’s Church in Johnson City, Tenn., and as associate rector for Christian formation and pastoral care at All Saints’ Church in Atlanta, Ga. While at St. Columba’s he also was interim chaplain at St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. A native of Tennessee, Fr. Epperson took his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee, with a major in psychology and a minor in economics. After working in his family’s jewelry manufacturing business, he decided to enter the ministry. He received his M.Div. degree from General Theological Seminary in New York City, with a two-year field placement at Trinity Church in New York.
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The Reverend Charles A. Robinson, Vicar
Born in Oklahoma, Charles spent his formative years in various areas of the Southwest United States. He enlisted in the Navy as a hospital corpsman in 1970 following high school graduation. After completing his baccalaureate degree, he was commissioned in the Medical Service Corps as an environmental health officer in 1980. Charles completed 28 years of service and retired from the Navy as a Commander in 1998. After serving as a corporate health care executive for two years, he returned to work for the Navy as a civilian scientist before leaving for seminary in 2001. Charles holds degrees from National University and Webster University, and he received the Master of Divinity degree from The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. He was rector of Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Suffolk, Va., before joining Bruton Parish in August 2007.
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The Reverend Penny Nash, Associate Rector
Youth, Children & Families
Born and raised in North Carolina, Penny attended Wake Forest University and graduated from The Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. She received her Master of Divinity from The Candler School of Theology at Emory University. In between those two periods of academic pursuit, she variously worked in New York City in the advertising and publishing industry, in Atlanta for both legal and non-profit organizations and their boards, and she spent several years designing and manufacturing a line of children’s clothing for her own company. Penny served several parishes in the Diocese of Atlanta before joining Bruton Parish as the associate rector for youth, children and families in 2011.
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The Reverend John Maxwell Kerr, BASc, MSc, PhD, Dip Th. College Chaplain
Born in Scotland, John is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto, Leeds, and Nottingham (after graduating from Toronto, he held a Short Service Commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flying Officer). He was Athlone Research Fellow at Leeds University and was a Visiting Research Fellow at both Merton College Oxford and the University of California Berkeley's Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He taught chemistry, physics, logic, and theology at Winchester College and has been a visiting lecturer at several British and American universities. He was ordained in the Oxford Diocese in the Anglican Church 30 years ago and was one of the founders and second warden of the Society of Ordained Scientists. John was the first Bruton-Rockefeller Resident Scholar, and he now is Episcopal Chaplain to the faculty, staff, and students at The College of William and Mary.
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The Reverend Daniel Thomas Avery, M. Div., Ed.D. - Assisting Priest
Born in Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia. Graduate of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Valdosta State Univeristy, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and The College of William and Mary. Additional studies at Medical College of Virginia, Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond and Virginia Theological Seminary. Daniel was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1975 and ordained as an Episcopal priest in 2003. His bi-vocational career has included service in campus ministry, pastoral counseling, community mental health and currently his weekday work is with Navy quality of life programs that support military members and their families. He has been Assisting Priest at Bruton since 2003.
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The Reverend Robert G. Gay, Deacon
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Bob graduated from Loyola University Chicago. Upon graduation, he entered the Navy. His career in the Navy was spent entirely in the Submarine Force including command of two submarines. After 31 years of service, he retired in 1997. He spent the next seven years managing research for The Johns Hopkins University. He retired from Johns Hopkins in 2004 to return to the Diocese of Southern Virginia to pursue ordination as a vocational deacon. Upon ordination in 2010, he was assigned to St. John’s Hampton. He was subsequently assigned to Bruton Parish in 2012.
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