Ashley M. Wilcox

Denomination: Other

Ashley M. Wilcox is a Quaker minister and the bestselling author of The Women’s Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible throughout the Year, a handbook for feminist preachers, available now from Westminster John Knox Press. She founded Church of Mary Magdalene and Preaching with Confidence, an online preaching class and preaching coaching.

Ashley travels around the country to speak and preach. She has been teaching and leading workshops on women and spirituality for more than a decade. For the past five years, she has been teaching preaching to Candler School of Theology students.
Through her ministry, Ashley brings Friends deeper into their own tradition and helps those in other denominations and faiths experience God through Quaker practices and spirituality.

Ashley is a graduate of Candler School of Theology and Willamette University College of Law. Before going to seminary, Ashley worked for appellate courts in Washington and Oregon. Her writing has been published in
Working Preacher, Friends Journal, Quaker Religious Thought, Western Friend, Fidelia, and various Quaker anthologies.  

Ashley was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and now lives in Greensboro, NC with her partner Troy and their orange cat.