Jane Patterson
Jane Patterson is the project director of the Collegeville Institute's Communities of Calling Initiative and associate director of the Called to Lives of Meaning and Purpose Initiative. She also serves as associate professor of New Testament and director of community care at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. She is a contributor to Calling All Years Good: Vocation Across the Lifespan (Eerdmans, 2017) and the author of Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians (SBL Press, 2015). With John Lewis, she is a co-director of St. Benedict’s Workshop, a ministry devoted to helping laity live their faith in daily life, and serves the Diocese of West Texas as a member of the Discernment Committee. She is active as a preacher, teacher, and parishioner at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas.
