Jonah M. Saller, MSJ is an Anglican Catholic lay minister at The Anglican Mission of Saint Patrick, host of an ecumenical podcast, and postulant to Holy Orders in the Missionary Society of St. John under the episcopal authority of The Right Rev. Alberto Morales OSB, DD, Bishop of the Diocese of Quincy, and The Most Rev. Father General Robert D. Lemmon, MSJ. The missionary society is canonically resident within the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, a non-geographical diocese within the Anglican Church in North America. He also serves at St. Andrew’s Reformed Episcopal Church, licensed by Bishop Ray R. Sutton, the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Jonah has taken vows to uphold the Missionary Society of Saint John’s Rule of Life, a Rule rooted within Benedictine spirituality and practice. Jonah’s doctrinal commitments include submission to the primacy and inerrancy of Scripture, the three Catholic Creeds (Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian), and the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. These form the standards for orthodox Christian faith and practice. He also upholds the 39 Articles of Religion as expressing the Anglican reforms of the 16th century and a return to the faith of the Undivided Church of the first millennium.
Jonah is committed to “proclaim the Good News that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting men’s sins against them” (2. Cor. 5:19), and to live that Gospel in [his] daily [life], incarnating by [his] actions and relationships the two-fold essence of Christ’s Church: unity in truth and love with other believers” (MSJ Rule of Life, pp. 2-3).
Jonah has been influenced by both the Eastern and Western fathers of the Church with a special appreciation for the Eastern approach to theology and liturgy. In addition to this, he is indebted to his English heritage, honoring people such as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Bishop John Jewel, and Richard Hooker, as well as the Caroline Divines of the 17th century and the Oxford Movement of the 19th century.
Jonah is the husband of his beloved wife Megan, a student of theology at the Moody Bible Institute, and a musician with a love for poetry and art.
