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On August 1, we will welcome the Rev. Ian Lasch to join us as Missioner for Formation. This new position will oversee our Christian formation initiatives across the full life cycle, focusing on both educational opportunities for adults of all ages and on our diocesan ministries to youth and young adults. He will guide the strategic development of related programs, and provide oversight for the related grant projects in these areas.
Father Ian brings a decade of experience as a priest, pastor, and teacher. Prior to entering ordained ministry, he worked as an Arabic translator. He has most recently served as rector of a parish in Savannah, Georgia and is working on a PhD at the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Autism and Theology. His dissertation seeks to challenge our conceptions of what it means to bear the imago Dei, the image of God, and how we might see the imago in autistic people and autistic experiences.
Ian was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, to parents from outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and considers himself at least a heritage Midwesterner. Ian and his wife, Rev. Canon Loren Lasch, who is also an Episcopal priest, have two neurodivergent children: Elias, age 11, and Ezra, age 9.
Ian writes that his whole family is excited to relocate to Indianapolis and he looks forward to joining the “Diocese of Indianapolis to contribute to the ongoing ministries of Christian formation and inclusion in the Diocese and all of its worshiping communities.”
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