About Us

Originally from Southern California, Rob has an undergraduate degree from Yale College, where he studied Japanese and sang with the Yale Russian Chorus. Before seminary, he was an organizer on environmental issues in California. He received his MDiv from Yale Divinity School with a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Early in his career, he was a chaplain at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn and served at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, as well as serving churches in San Marino and Santa Barbara, CA. Before coming to St. John’s he was the Rector of St. Dunstan’s, Carmel Valley, CA, where both attendance and financial support for the parish increased dramatically during his tenure. He oversaw the expansion of the parish’s school and its facilities, and he led the church through the design and construction process for a new pipe organ and sanctuary renovation. A particular highlight of his time in Carmel Valley was pulling together members of local Jewish and Islamic communities for faith based outreach efforts and interfaith dialogue.

Rob and his wife Sarah, a journalist, co-founded and published a magazine called Edible Monterey Bay for seven years, a quarterly, journalistic print publication focused on the local food and wine community of California’s Central Coast, spanning from Santa Cruz to Salinas to Big Sur.

Rob has been proud to lead St. John’s during a pivotal time in the life of our church, helping chart a course by which St. John’s has been able to serve as a place of grace showing the love of Christ in our historic and consequential corner at the heart of our nation’s capital.