The Rev. Edward J. "Jay" Mills III

The Rev. Edward J. Rector

BIO – Edward J. Mills III

I was born in Charleston, West Virginia but my parents were both New Yorkers. I grew up in West Virginia but lived the best of both worlds with a Southern accent with Yiddish accents. I was the fifth of five children, graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1976 and from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1980. I continued my education with four semesters of Classical Greek at Marshall University as well as East Tennessee State University.

I have served eleven churches in the Dioceses of West Virginia, South West Virginia, and East Tennessee – many of these positions having been interim positions. I am canonically resident in the Diocese of East Tennessee and live in Kingsport, Tennessee.

In 1976 I married the love of my life and we have two children, Sarah (age 20) and Jamie (age 26) who now live in West Virginia and North Carolina, respectively.

I love water sports (kayaking, canoeing, etc.) youth work, preaching and teaching. I have stayed current in scripture studies and the perquisite languages and following are some of the wonderful things God has allowed me to do or be part of:

Scholarship:
Member:

Society of Biblical Literature,

Jewish Publications Society,

Jesus Seminar (Associate - lapsed),

Archaeological Institute of America,

North American Patristics Society

Pi Gamma Mu

Vice President: East Tennessee Archaeological Institute of America 2008-2009

Member: Integrity, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and ACLU



Publications:

Book Reviewer for the International Social Science Review, the journal of Pi

Gamma Mu


Book Reviewer for the Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical

Literature.


Author: An Unexpected, Yet Bidden, Journey, which may be found at:

http://www.integrityusa.org/downloadablematerials/AnUnexpectedYetBiddenJourney.pdf


Essays: The Church and Sex, a series entitled the Bible and Homosexuality (a

series on the biblical texts touching the issue of homosexuality), as well as book

reviews for The Voice of Integrity, which may be found at:

http://www.integrityusa.org/voice/index.htm (beginning 2003)


Author: ‘Blood, Shed’, in Comfort Ye, Finding Light in Times of

Darkness, Ed. Richard H. Schmidt, Forward Movement, Cincinnati, 2007.