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WACO, Texas (Jan. 21, 2026) – Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary announced today that Tish Harrison Warren has been appointed to serve as the inaugural C.S. Lewis Theological Writer-in-Residence in the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies.
In this fixed-term appointment, Warren will not only continue to give attention to her work as a writer and engage publicly at the intersection of Christian theology and contemporary culture, but she will also serve in a teaching and mentoring role designed to support Anglican and Episcopal students enrolled at Truett Seminary. In addition to teaching a May intensive-term course later this year with Fr. Matthew Aughtry, she will regularly be on Truett’s main campus in Waco to meet with and mentor students. She will also represent the Anglican Episcopal House at a variety of events both on and off campus. Additionally, Warren will offer stand-alone lectures at the Seminary and University on topics such as the theology of worship, the role of liturgy in the Christian life, writing as spiritual formation, spiritual memoir and testimony, and faith and imagination in the works of C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, Flannery O’Connor, and other writers.
As the fall 2025 semester began, Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary launched an Anglican Episcopal House of Studies. The seminary was founded in 1991 to train Baptist ministers.
The new program allows seminarians enrolled at Truett to take classes on Anglican and Episcopal history, theology, polity, and liturgics. Students may also enroll in courses in other Baylor departments, including “Oxford Christians,” offered by the English Department.
Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary announced Oct. 13 the formation of an Anglican Episcopal House of Studies.
In making its announcement, the seminary stated the graduate-level program “will cultivate theologically grounded, liturgically formed and missionally engaged clergy and lay leaders for service in Anglican and Episcopal contexts.”
Following extensive conversations with Seminary faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, and with strong support from Baylor University’s central administration, Truett Seminary announced today the formation of an Anglican Episcopal House of Studies. As a strategic initiative of the Seminary in response to a growing number of Anglican and Episcopal students at Truett, this new graduate-level house of studies will cultivate theologically grounded, liturgically formed, and missionally engaged clergy and lay leaders for service in Anglican and Episcopal contexts.