Sharon Ely Pearson is an editor with Church Publishing Incorporated, joining them in November 2007 as their first Christian Formation Specialist. Prior to joining CPI, she was the Children’s Ministries & Christian Education Coordinator for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut for ten years. A graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and a lifelong Episcopalian, she lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband, John, of 37 years, Shadow the cat, and Chobe a rescue black Lab.

She and John attend St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, CT where Sharon is the past Senior Warden, a Lay Eucharistic Minister and teaches Godly Play in the Church School which is a joint venture with Wilton Presbyterian Church. They have two grown children (both teachers) and is a new grandmother! In her spare time (what’s that?) she enjoys reading, cross-stitch, genealogy, gardening and travel. The Green Mile, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Shawshank Redemption continue to inspire theological reflection no matter how many times they are viewed.

The co-author of The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education, 3rd edition (2009), Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People (2012), and Marked for Mission: Youth in Action ( 2014) she blogs at Rows of Sharon and is the founder of Building Faith: An Online Christian Formation Community (now administered by Virginia Theological Seminary) as well at The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education that offers weekly reflection and discussion starters on the lectionary readings. She is also the author of The Episcopal Christian Educator's Handbook (2013), Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st Century (2014), and Reclaiming the Gospel of Peace: Chal