Rev. Gina Gilland Campbell, United Methodist, served as the first non-Episcopalian to lead Washington National Cathedral’s Worship life.

Rev. Campbell believes we become what we pray.  A liturgist’s gestures, presence, and care with primary symbols shape the deep religious affections and lived prayer of the worshipping Body of Christ.

Thirty years of engagement with Family Systems thinking informs her teaching.  She invites students to live out of their own authenticity, to connect deeply with others, to discover the calm and confident leadership that arises.

In four decades of ministry, she has served churches in Georgia, New Jersey, Texas and Maryland.

Education

Duke University, MA with Distinction in Religion

Candler School of Theology, Master of Divinity

Research Interests

The performative aspects of worship; creating an awareness of the powerful embodiment of liturgical prayer, gesture, affections.

Sacramentality  -  the world is full of our life with God and therefore never static – how does thinking in this way bring depth and vitality to our worship?

Attending to the spirituality of the child as foundational and critical to the formation of Christian community.

Family systems theory - the self of the leader as formed in family and matured in relationship and vocation. 

Extensive personal research as relates to the deeper streams of self-differentiation such as solitude, preaching, place, play, fierce conversation, and death as important to the maturing of self.

Publications

Prayers and Resources to Commemorate the Beginning of World War I: The World War I Commission of the United States, in partnership with Washington National Cathedral.

Poetry in "Alive Now!" The Day of Ashes, The Slow Stitch

"Upper Room Disciplines" A Week of Meditations on Vision, 2008. 

Prayers of the People for the Installation of The Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and Primate, The Feast of All Saints, 2015.

Relevant Classes Taught 

Preaching and Worship for the Christian Year

Justice at the Front and the Table

Calm, Confident, Competent: Family Systems Thinking and Pastoral Ministry

Pastoral Liturgics Practicum