from DANIELLESHROYER.com
Danielle Shroyer is an author, speaker, spiritual director, and former pastor. Danielle served as the pastor of one of the nation’s first independent emerging communities of faith for nearly a decade. Her primary goal as a pastor was to help people going through a season of spiritual deconstruction find healthy, sustainable, and meaningful ways to reconstruct their faith.
Danielle holds a B.A. from Baylor University and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Her first position after seminary was as a chaplain in a retirement community, serving primarily in the memory-care unit, which continues to inform her work today. She also spent a year as the assistant chaplain at Southern Methodist University, supporting the spiritual life of the student body as well as the many religious student groups on campus.
Danielle has received spiritual direction since 2012 and is mentored by her own spiritual director in the Episcopal tradition and lineage. She is also a graduate of the Haden Institute spiritual direction program, where she is currently pursuing a second certification in their dreamwork program. Danielle is a member of Spiritual Directors International and regularly seeks opportunities to gather and learn from fellow directors. In addition to offering individual spiritual direction sessions, Danielle leads prayer retreats, teaches meditation, and offers workshops. She also enjoys guest preaching.
Danielle is the author of Original Blessing: Putting Sin in its Rightful Place (Fortress Press, 2016), Where Jesus Prayed: Illuminations on the Lord’s Prayer in the Holy Land (Paraclete Press, 2016), and The Boundary-Breaking God: An Unfolding Story of Hope and Promise (Jossey-Bass, 2009). She is a contributor to the Common English Bible Women’s Edition (2016), and Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still (2017), an overview of the history of women at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Danielle Shroyer introduces people to a God who delights in breaking through boundaries, loves to pop up in unexpected places, and favors the outsider over the institutional insider. Her work on the historical development of the doctrine of original sin—including its missteps and overcalculations—has been and continues to be influential and compelling thought and leadership toward putting sin back in its rightful place—within a broader context of redemption.
