I'm Father Jayan Koshy, a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, currently serving as Curate at the Church of the Ascension in Stillwater, Minnesota. I live nearby in Saint Paul with my husband Benji and our Goldendoodle puppy, Granger. In 2023, I was ordained to the priesthood and received a Master of Divinity from Saint John’s School of Theology & Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. I also hold a Bachelor of Science in Political science & Chinese from Ohio State University, and I've completed graduate coursework in political theory at both Ohio State University and University of Minnesota. Prior to beginning the ordination process, I worked various jobs in publishing, academia, and digital communications.
Although my family have historically been Saint Thomas Christians and Danish Lutherans, I was raised in a fundamentalist Neo-Calvinist household in West Virginia. After being traumatically alienated from Christianity as a teenager, I wandered through various religious traditions (including Hinduism and Islam), trying to find a spiritual home. Getting sober in my early 20s prompted me to radically reorganize my life and ultimately led me back into Christianity via the Episcopal Church. Since my return to the Church, monastic spirituality (particularly Benedictinism) and the Catholic tradition within Anglicanism have been central to my Christian formation. My current research and writing interests lie at the intersection of monastic studies, Anglican ecclesiology, and the theology of ministry.