The Reverend Stephen Harding is the Director of Pastoral Care at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, where he covers the pediatric inpatient floors and the Stephen D. Hassenfeld pediatric outpatient oncology clinic. Outside the hospital, Fr Harding serves as the Protestant Chaplain for the New York City Fire Department.

He has written about and given presentations on such topics as ‘Spiritual Care’, ‘Pastoral Care’, ‘Death and Dying’, ‘Healing in the Christian Tradition’, and is a frequent contributor to “Plainviews,” an electronic newsletter for Chaplains. He has served as the editor of a Disaster Response Manual for congregational leaders, which was released on-line in October, 2007. In 2006, the Glasgow (Scotland) City Council published his Book of Hours for the World Trade Center, a small volume of his reflections at being part of the recovery effort there.

Fr Harding grew-up in Manhattan and received the degree of Master of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary and the degree of Master of Sacred Theology in Spiritual Direction from the General Theological Seminary.

A native New Zealander, Storm was ordained in 1995 in the Diocese of Dunedin, Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. After taking her first theological degree, she followed her sense of call into hospital chaplaincy, first serving at Dunedin Hospital and then as Chaplain to Mental Health Services for two city hospitals and the wider community. During this time her spiritual home was in the Anglo-Catholic parish of St. Peter’s, Dunedin. On sabbatical in New York in 1998-99, Storm studied Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary and earned the S.T.M.

Returning to New York a year later, she began training as a pastoral psychotherapist and psychoanalyst at the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute of Religion and Health and began the doctoral program at Union. Her dissertation takes a theological perspective on the experience of chaplains at the 9/11 Temporary Morgue at Ground Zero. From 2002 to 2007, Storm was Canon Pastor of the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, responsible for the incredibly diverse and committed Cathedral Congregation. An accredited Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor, Storm serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Healthcare Chaplaincy, teaching on the Theology of Pastoral Care and Supervision.

Priest, psychotherapist and Ph.D. student, Storm has a love of : good liturgy that leads to a connection with God who knows us completely, loves us anyway and calls us to go do likewise; good food and people to share it with; a good rendition of Monty Python; and good time with her other great loves, the Rev’d Stephen Harding and their son Theo, born in January 2007.

Deacon Paul grew up on Long Island and has lived in Manhattan since 1979.  He was ordained in 2007; he was sponsored by the Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village, did field placement at St. Paul’s Chapel at Trinity Wall Street, and has previously served as deacon at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Kip’s Bay.  Deacons traditionally have one foot in the Church and one foot in the World, and that “bridge ministry” is the umbrella concept for Paul’s ministry; his particular interests are adult education, spiritual formation, and pastoral care.  Paul is an Associate of the Order of the Holy Cross (an Anglican Benedictine community) and is co-mentor of the Education for Ministry group that meets at the Church of St. John’s in the Village.

Paul received a bachelor’s degree in Russian from Oberlin College in Ohio and a master’s degree in International Economics and Finance from NYU.  He works for the City of New York, where he serves as Staff Manager for Bridge Maintenance, Inspection and Operations.