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.
The Silence That Answers Back: Poems (Resource Publications, 2026)
A Weathered Ship: Poems (Ridge Books, 2025)
Time in Shenandoah: Poems (Bottlecap Press, 2024)
A Funeral in the Wild: Poems (Kelsay Books, 2024)
Reconstructing Prayer: Beyond Deconstructing Your Faith (Cascade, 2023)
The Stories That Make Us: Practicing the Parables of Jesus (Hillside, 2023)
(Co-editor) Theological Renewal for the Third Millennium: A Kärkkäinen Compendium (Cascade, 2022)
Boundless Love: A Companion to Clark H. Pinnock's Theology (Wipf & Stock, 2021)
Washed in the Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Baptism (CPT, 2021)
"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
"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.
Interview: How God Speaks Through Scripture (And Why It Matters): ProveText Podcast
Interview: Reconstructing Prayer: Theomagination Podcast
Interview: Becoming a Pastor Theologian: The Center for Pastor Theologians Podcast
Interview: Washed in the Spirit Part 1: Theomagination Podcast
Interview: Washed in the Spirit Part 2: Theomagination Podcast
Interview: Boundless Love/Clark Pinnock: Everyday Theology Podcast
Interview: The Sacramental Charismatic Podcast
Feature: Reconstructing Prayer Resource Reveal: Sacramental Charismatic Podcast
Podcast Series: Thinking Within the Church
Feature: "One Poem Review" of A Weathered Ship: The Lake
Review: A Funeral in the Wild by Glenn A. Barker: Black Bough Poetry
Review: A Funeral in the Wild by Tiffany M. Storrs: Roi Fainéant Press
Feature: A Funeral in the Wild by Samantha Terrell: Honesty Poetry
Feature: Poets & Writers Directory
Interview: Patricia's Pen
Interview: Eat the Storms Podcast