The Rev. Richard Jones

Richard J. Jones taught Mission & World Religions at Virginia Theological Seminary from 1988 until 2009. As Al-Alwani Chair of Muslim-Christian Studies in the Washington Theological Consortium, he taught at member theological schools in the Washington, D.C. area.

Born in the District of Columbia in 1943, he taught English as a foreign language in Viet-Nam and served as a parish priest in Ecuador, Alabama, and Virginia. He is past president of American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan and has visited Sudan on two occasions.

Recently remarried, he walks a Shiba Inu dog, attends the Men’s Exercise Class at Hollin Hall Senior Center, and occasionally officiates at Spanish-language worship services in Northern Virginia Episcopal churches. When the sun shines, he gets sightings of his four grandchildren who live one block away.