Guild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church

The Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church is a society of lay Episcopal academics, teachers, artists and professional practitioners which for many years met annually at General Theological Seminary in New York in November of each year. Since 2011, it has met in locations around the US such as Cincinnati, Albuquerque, Holy Cross Monastery in the Hudson Valley, Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and most recently at the Virginia Theological Seminary.

The guild was founded in 1945 and has included notable members such as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, Stringfellow Barr, George Parshall, Marshall Fishwick, Margaret Morgan Lawrence, Ursula Niebuhr, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner, Howard Roelofs, Hoxie Fairchild, Walter Lowrie (author), Charles Forker, and Richard W. Bailey. Norman Pittenger was a past chaplain. Current members include the literary academics John V. Fleming, Debora Shuger, Marsha Dutton, Jameela Lares, and Nicholas Birns, the musician Royce Boyer, the religious historians David L. Holmes, Philip Jenkins, and Robert Bruce Mullin, and the classicist Warren Smith. The chaplain of the guild was the late Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright. David Hurd offered a regular organ recital for many years when the Guild wasmeeting in New York.