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Named one of Sojourner Magazine’s “12 Women Shaping the Church” in 2025, Rev. Lizzie is known for her passionate, fierce, and colorful reclamation of Christianity as an award-winning author, Episcopal priest, online creative, and proud mom of two.

A sought-after preacher, thinker, and pastor, Lizzie’s writing and ministry have been featured in Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Thrillist, Church Anew, and more. Her debut book, God Didn’t Make Us to Hate Us: 40 Devotions to Liberate Your Faith from Fear and Reconnect with Joywon the Gold Medal for Best Devotional in the 2025 Illumination Book Awards.

Her next book, You Are God’s Work of Art, is a children’s book with Beaming Books illustrated by Natalia Bruno, and will hit the shelves September 7, 2027. She is currently writing her subsequent nonfiction book under the brilliant editorial support of Stephanie Duncan Smith at HarperOne, provisionally titled: How to Have Joy When the World is Falling Apart, due out in early 2028.

Rev. Lizzie has lived all over the world, with her boots now rooted in Austin, Texas where she is living her dream as the founding planter of Jubilee Episcopal Church. She is passionate about evangelism for a God who makes each of us for joy, which is why you might see her doing silly dances and talking about church history on Instagram & TikTok with her combined 130k+ followers, or on her podcast with fellow Episcopal priest Rev. Laura called And Also With You.

Lizzie primarily grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and received her First Communion as a devout Catholic in the second grade. By the time she reached Middle School, her mother had led her family into her own calling to ministry, and Lizzie had the privilege (and, admittedly, challenge!) of watching her mother pursue ordination in the United Methodist Church, which culminated in her mother’s ordination as an Elder the same weekend Lizzie graduated high school. This makes Lizzie officially a second generation clergywoman and specifically, a clergywoman mama, and she delights in talking about motherhood, pregnancy, and reproductive justice from this lens of faith and leadership in the church.

A graduate from Mount Holyoke College (Summa cum laude), Lizzie brought a passion for intersectional feminism and queer theology to her studies at Duke Divinity School and Seminary of the Southwest. It was her time in both South Hadley, Massachusetts and Durham, NC that brought her into the Episcopal Church, and it was the Episcopal Church that brought Lizzie and her beloved spouse, Jonathan, to Texas. Prior to ordination, she worked in youth & children’s ministry and as a hospice chaplain, all while concurrently teaching art in bars and waiting tables. She was ordained in 2020, and as grateful as she is for her academic formation, she still swears most things she learned about being a priest she learned from 5+ years of working in the service industry and access to the arts in her public high school.

Her home is filled with love with her husband, The Rev. Jonathan McManus-Dail, and their two beloved daughters.

CURATE

Tashara Angelle is a native Austinite, pastor’s kid, and lifelong lover of the city’s “weirdness.” Baptized by her father in the Colorado River, she carries deep roots in the community she calls home. Spending much of her childhood in charismatic Black churches filled with lively singing and joy, she has long known faith as something embodied, communal, and deeply life-giving. 

Tashara completed her Diploma in Anglican Studies at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and earned her Master of Divinity from Austin Seminary. She also holds an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Concordia University Texas and a B.S. in Public Relations from The University of Texas at Austin.

Before answering her call to ministry, Tashara worked as a Legislative Aide for a State Representative, focusing on criminal justice reform and education policy, and then served in public education for 14 years as a high school teacher, coach, and district administrator, working primarily in Title I schools. Her years in education deepened her love of teaching and formation, service, and justice, and continue to shape her ministry today. While at Austin Seminary, she served as Co-chair of the HESED Conference, an annual lecture series focused on justice, mercy, and reconciliation. As co-chair, Tashara led an organizing team of faculty, students, and staff who curated workshops highlighting faith-based responses to mass incarceration, health inequities, and racial justice, and strengthened collaboration between the seminary, churches, and local community partners. 

Tashara feels called to congregational leadership and to helping the Church deepen its relationship with Christ, with one another, and with the world through the pursuit of social justice. She enthusiastically joined the Jubilee team in July of 2026.

Tashara is married to Alvan, and together they are joyfully raising their two young daughters with much gratitude. When she’s not working or parenting, she enjoys reading, people-watching, making sourdough bread, and sharing chips and queso on outdoor patios—when the Texas heat allows it.

MUSIC MINISTER

Born into a family with a long lineage of musicians, Carly learned at an early age to interpret and process the world around her through music, cutting her teeth on the sounds of Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash. She began singing in church as a child whenever she could, and picked up the guitar around the tender age of ten. 

By the time she was a teenager, Carly was regularly singing and playing guitar in church on a weekly basis, and soon became a band leader there for her youth ministry. 

During high school and college, she sang in the choir and served as a leader in campus ministry. The inter-denominational nature of church organizations on campus gave Carly the opportunity to lead music in a wide array of church traditions, enriching her appreciation for the nuances found within the larger community of faith. This would later lead Carly to partner with various ministries, coming alongside new church plants to help supply music.

Carly has led church music locally and internationally; in empty parking lots and on large stages; with beginner musicians and Grammy nominated musicians; by herself and with a full band. The one guiding principle that keeps her grounded in her purpose as a leader and musician is her belief that music touches our souls the way other mediums cannot, and there is a holy responsibility for ministers to provide an opportunity to connect with God through music in a way that is ethical, non-manipulative, and non-coercive. This guiding principle is largely what drew Carly to the Episcopal Church, and remains at the forefront of her convictions as she creates music.