I get excited seeing people’s faith come alive as hesitancy over prayer or big beliefs gives way to insight and hope.

About Timothy Jones

I like inviting people into deeper enjoyment of God by making difficult spiritual things more accessible through the stories I tell and the honest vulnerability I share. I get excited seeing people’s faith come alive as hesitancy over prayer or big beliefs gives way to insight and hope. I love writing, speaking, retreat leading, and appearing on others’ podcasts.

As a pastor, I’ve served churches small and large, including a vibrant downtown Episcopal Cathedral as Dean (senior minister). In 2023 I served an appointment as Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary. And I’m now back in Nashville, preaching, teaching, meeting with writer friends, enjoying the outdoors, and helping others to discover my new book, Fully Beloved.

When I teach, I’ve done so in diverse settings: conducting workshops at the National Pastors' Convention in San Diego, for instance, or facilitating a retreat at a Presbyterian Church in Silicon Valley, or leading retreats at Laity Lodge in Texas. I’ve offered a quiet day for the editors of Upper Room books in Nashville and for Anglican and Episcopal students at Duke Divinity School in North Carolina. I've taught spirituality in a workshop at a diocesan gathering of Anglican priests in South Africa and, as an adjunct, to graduate students at the Alexandria School of Theology in Egypt.

And I write: Over the years, my books have been endorsed by the likes of Eugene Peterson, Lewis Smedes, J. I. Packer, and Sandra McCracken. My several books all seem to boil down to a simple theme: a growing, vital communion with God is possible. I even tackled a book, Fully Beloved, focused on the ancient Christian belief in the Trinity, joyfully sharing its invitation to a renewed relationship with God and others.

And I love music, especially playing clawhammer banjo or bodhran in genres from Appalachian folk, to bluegrass, to Celtic.