The Rev. Ryan Ashley Hall
Curate

The Rev. Ryan Hall is the curate at St. Mark's on Campus, currently serving as priest, after his ordination to the priesthood on the Feast of the Ascension in May of 2008. Father Ryan is originally from Tennessee, graduating from Carson Newman College outside Knoxville, TN, with BA degrees in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Psychology. Coming to Nebraska for law school at UNL, Ryan finished one year before joining the Resurrection House program and moving onto seminary.

Prior to seminary, Father Ryan was an intern at the Resurrection House internship program in Omaha, a year long discernment program for young people run by the Church of the Resurrection and the Diocese of Nebraska. After that experience, Father Ryan graduated with an M.Div. from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, in June 2007. During his time in seminary, Father Ryan did Clinical Pastoral Education at the University of Tennessee medical center in Knoxville, TN, and did an exchange program for a semester at Westcott House seminary in Cambridge, England. He also served as a summer seminarian intern on the Rosebud Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

Father Ryan has participated in the life of several congregations prior to coming to St. Mark's. He attended St John's Cathedral in Knoxville and joined Holy Trinity in Lincoln while in law school and worked as a Resurrection House intern at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Bellevue, NE. While in seminary, Father Ryan served as seminarian assistant at St. Paul's Church in Chicago and was a guest preacher/cantor for Evensong at Little Saint Mary's Parish in Cambridge, England.

In his spare time, Father Ryan is an officer of the Lincoln Elks Lodge and other community organizations. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and also enjoys fishing, camping, keeping up with college football and baseball, computers, reading, and cooking. Most recently, Father Ryan and Mary are proud adopters of a bouncing 65-pound golden retriever named Max though his work with the Golden Retriever Rescue in Nebraska.