Voices of Reconciliation – Reverend Craig Lemming – Wednesday, November 19 @ 7:00-8:00 pm
The Event
Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, at 7:00 PM for the third and final event in the "Voices of Reconciliation" fall series, which has highlighted pastoral leaders from a variety of faith communities of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Following our conversations with Canon Robert Two Bulls on his ministry with indigenous communities and Rev. Jeconia Okoth on his work with faith communities of other than European origin, we conclude the series with the Rev. Craig Lemming, Associate Rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul.
Fr. Craig is a native of Zimbabwe, a professionally trained tenor, and a passionate advocate for inclusion in Christian communities. He will share with us his own journey of faith and reconciliation, and the ways his experiences shape his pastoral ministry. Following his presentation there will be a facilitated Q&A session.
More About Craig Lemming
The Reverend Craig Lemming will offer a presentation on reconciliation, tying in personal and communal experiences of God’s reconciling love.
Craig serves at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul, Minnesota as the Associate Rector. Craig provides oversight of St. John’s Pastoral Care, Liturgical, and Faith Formation ministries, and shares in the responsibilities of preaching, teaching, as well as officiating and celebrating at various liturgies. He serves on the Episcopal Church in Minnesota’s diocesan Racial Justice and Healing Commission.
Craig has served as the founding Director, Chaplain, and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Circle of the Beloved – an intentional community for justice-seeking leaders in their 20s committed to spiritual discernment and cultivating kinship across lines of difference as decolonial, antiracist followers of the Way of Love. Craig holds a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, a Master of Music degree from Indiana University, and is preparing to defend his dissertation for the Doctor of Ministry degree at Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Craig was born and raised in Zimbabwe, attended St. George’s College in Harare and graduated from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Prior to serving at St. John’s, Craig completed his Chaplaincy training at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and served as the Transitional Deacon and Curate of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Linden Hills, Minneapolis. Craig loves Christian centering prayer, the Enneagram, and practices audio divina with scripture and music as a spiritual discipline. Craig’s essay, “Voice and Verse: Breathing and Belonging Together” was published in Pathways to Belonging with a Foreword by Willie James Jennings in 2025 by Wipf and Stock Publishers.