Staff

The Rev'd Dr. Michael W. Petty

Fr. Michael Petty is a native of West Virginia and grew up in Houston, TX.  He received his education at Austin College (B. A.) and at Vanderbilt University (M. Div., M. A., Ph. D.).

During his twenty-five years of ordained ministry, he has served a large suburban congregation, a campus ministry at a medical school, and a hospital chaplaincy.

He serves as Canon for Adult Formation at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral [Tallahassee, FL], a position he has held since 2005, the year of the establishment of the church. Since its founding in 2014, he has served as Director of The Charles Simeon Institute.

In addition to pastoral ministry, Fr. Petty has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University), the Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and the Tallahassee Christian College and Training Center [formerly the Center for Biblical Studies]. 

He is the author of A Faith That Loves the Earth: The Ecological Theology of Karl Rahner, published by the University Press of America.  

He is married to Sara Clausen and they have a son, Graham.

Jennifer Webster

Jennifer Webster is the Associate Director of the Charles Simeon Institute and Dean of the Lay School of Theology. She and her husband are both Florida natives but are lifelong Anglophiles. St. Peter’s is a beautiful blend of the two. She is currently completing her PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. She has completed a B.A. in Anthropology at UCF and a M.A. in Church History at the University of Nottingham. She has a passion for educating Christians and congregations in theology and church history, and sees quality education as fundamental for developing healthy and whole followers of Jesus Christ. 
 
She is married to Nate, a licensed mental health counselor and they have a daughter, Islay Rose.