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Andrew Ray Williams (PhD, Bangor University, Wales) is a pastor-theologian, author, and poet living in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Rooted in the Pentecostal tradition and engaged in conversation with the wider church, his work explores the lived texture of Christian faith, especially where theology meets prayer, sacrament, pastoral vocation, creaturely life, and the ordinary world.

Andrew serves as Lead Pastor of Church on the Hill in Fishersville, Virginia, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a St. Basil Fellow with the Center for Pastor Theologians and teaches theology as an adjunct professor at Bethel Seminary and Portland Seminary.

He also collaborates with theological schools and ministry organizations in faculty formation and continuing education, with particular attention to pastoral formation, theological anthropology, and the theological dimensions of ministry.

Across theology, pastoral writing, and poetry, his work pursues a language spacious enough to hold both theological clarity and the mystery of Christian life.

Andrew Ray Williams (PhD, Bangor University, Wales) is a Pentecostal pastor-theologian, author, and poet whose work is rooted in the life of the church and engaged with the breadth of the Christian tradition.

"Only Shells" Stone Circle Review
"Checkout Line" Anti-Heroin Chic
"Strange Laughter" Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry
“The Last Rite” tiny wren lit
"Virginia Bluebells" iamb
“Terribly, Almost Never” Red Eft Review
“A World Without Sharp Edges” The Ekphrastic Review
“When My Daughter Asks, “Why Haven’t You Started Writing Yet?” The Lake
“After the Burial” Red Eft Review
“Monochrome” Ink in Thirds [Print]
“In Place of Despair” Locust Shells Journal [Print]
“Be a Person” Freshwater Literary Magazine [Print]
"The Cardinal" Trouvaille Review

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"Reviving the Word: Emil Brunner and Evangelical Ecclesial Theology." Center for Pastor Theologians Journal (2025): 69-80.
“‘God Is Not Ashamed of Human Lowliness’: Humility in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” Center for Pastor Theologians Journal 11.1 (2024): 125–35. 
“The Healing of Creation for the Good of All Creatures.” In Politics of the Spirit, edited by Chris E.W. Green and Daniela Augustine. Lanham, MD: Seymour Press, 2023. 
"Sacramentally Sent: A Pentecostal Theological Reading of John 9." Australasian Pentecostal Studies  22.1 (2021): 122-135. With Rich Wadholm Jr.
“Water Baptism in Pentecostal Perspective: A Bibliographic Evaluation.” Spiritus 4.1 (2019): 69–97.
“Greening the Apocalypse: A Pentecostal Eco-eschatological Exploration.” Pentecostudies 17.2 (2018): 205–29.
"Flame of Creation: Pentecostal Ecotheology in Dialogue with Clark Pinnock’s Pneumatology." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 26.2 (2017): 272-285.


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