Rev. Dr. Jenny McBride

The Rev. Dr. Jenny McBride is Associate Rector at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Midtown Atlanta, where she has served since 2022 and leads adult formation. A theologian and Episcopal priest, she preaches and teaches on Christian social ethics, restorative justice, and the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Before her ordination, Jenny was a college and seminary professor. She served as Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago (2016-2022), where she directed a Doctor of Ministry program. Before that, she held the Board of Regents Endowed Chair in Ethics at Wartburg College in Iowa (2011-2016). As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University, she taught at Candler School of Theology and directed its theology certificate program for incarcerated women.

Through that program, Jenny became professor and close friend to Kelly Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia's death row until her execution in 2015. She was a leading activist in the international #KellyOnMyMind campaign. Her book You Shall Not Condemn: A Story of Faith and Advocacy on Death Row (Cascade, 2022) publishes letters between Kelly and German theologian Jürgen Moltmann. She is also the author of Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel (Fortress, 2017) and The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness (Oxford University Press, 2011), and co-editor of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought. Her writing has appeared in The Christian Century and on CNN.com.

Jenny is the recent past president of the International Bonhoeffer Society, English Language Section, and co-edits the T&T Clark series New Studies in Bonhoeffer's Theology and Ethics. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, she holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and a Certificate in Anglican Studies from Bexley Seabury Seminary. She and her husband, Dr. Thomas Fabisiak, live in Atlanta.