Malcolm Clemens Young Explained

Malcolm Clemens Young is an Episcopal priest, author, theologian and the ninth Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the United States.[1] He was installed as dean in September 2015.[2] He is the author of The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God and The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau.[3]

Education and career

Malcolm Clemens Young attended high school in Davis, California.[4] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. After working as a management consultant with Monitor Company, he earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1994 and a Doctor of Theology in 2004 from Harvard University.[5] Young was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1995. From 2001 to 2015 Young served as the rector of Christ Church, Los Altos, where he founded Ventana School, an Episcopal day school for students in preschool to 5th grade.[6]

Young is the moderator of The Forum, Grace Cathedral's flagship lecture series.[7] He created the Innovative Ministries program, which includes the Tuesday night yoga class inside the cathedral that draws up to seven hundred people weekly.[8] Young has also launched programs to expand the cathedral's social justice programs and digital offerings.[9]

Young publishes a weekly video called More Good News on YouTube. He is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffington Post and the San Francisco Examiner.[10] [11] He gives papers and participates in the American Academy of Religion and the Pacific Coast Theological Society.[12] [13] He contributed the chapter "The Natural World" in The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought.[14]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Architecture - Grace Cathedral. Grace Cathedral. 19 July 2017.
  2. Web site: Grace Cathedral installs Malcolm Clemens Young as Ninth Dean. DioCal | Diocese of California. The Episcopal Diocese of California. 20 March 2017. 1.
  3. News: Rubenstein. Steve. Grace Cathedral picks Los Altos priest as new dean. 20 March 2017. SFGate. 12 May 2015. 2.
  4. News: Bigelow. Catherine. Parties span the sacred to the satanic. 13 July 2017. San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Newspapers. 22 February 2016.
  5. News: Rubenstein. Steve. Grace Cathedral picks Los Altos priest as new dean. 20 March 2017. SFGate. 12 May 2015. 2.
  6. News: Malcolm Young named as 9th dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. 20 March 2017. Episcopal News Service. 14 May 2015. 3.
  7. Web site: The Forum. Grace Cathedral. 20 March 2017.
  8. Web site: Welcome to yoga at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the largest yoga class in America . AARP. AARP. 1 May 2017.
  9. News: Garchik . Leah . Mitchell Bros. theater morphing into a variety show . 1 May 2017. San Francisco Chronicle. 17 January 2017.
  10. Web site: Latest posts by Malcolm Clemens Young. The San Francisco Examiner. 20 March 2017.
  11. Web site: Reverend Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young. The Huffington Post. 20 March 2017.
  12. Web site: Pacific Coast Theological Society. www.pcts.org . 2 May 2017.
  13. Web site: Pacific Coast Theological Society. www.pcts.org . 2 May 2017.
  14. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-nineteenth-century-christian-thought-9780198718406?q=william%20whyte&lang=en&cc=gb# Oxford University Press.

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