Billy Daniel, Director of Christian Education

Billy is a South Carolinian who has served in full-time Christian ministry with the Episcopal Church for the past eight years in North Carolina and Florida, serving as Director of Youth and Family Ministries at The Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, NC (2002-2005), and as Director of Christian Formation at St. John's Church here in Tampa (2006-2010). He is the husband to his forgiving wife, Amanda, and father to his children, son Wyles (8) and daughter Aydah (6). Billy received his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies in 2000 from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN (where he met Amanda), and a Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) in 2004 from the Duke University Divinity School in Durham, NC. He is currently finishing his dissertation towards a Ph.D. in Theology with the University of Nottingham in England. Billy is also an aspirant for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida.

When he is not being impractical with his family, reading, writing, or teaching the occasional class, Billy enjoys playing tennis, basketball, soccer, mountain biking (though there are only bumps in Florida), skiing (it's been a while), building things, gardening, and reading books he doesn't have to read. More than anything, Billy says he enjoys doing those things that do not have to be done - the things most often associated with the word “impractical,” for these are the truly godly things of life.