Dr. Gwen Adams was awarded a British research PhD degree for a multi-disciplinary study on priest-parishioner relationships in the field of pastoral theology. She holds an MA in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas, MN. She is experienced in a number of apostolic and academic endeavors, having served as a youth minister, farm intern, diocesan marriage tribunal advocate, mentor of Catholic undergraduate households, and teacher on the middle-school, high-school, undergraduate, and graduate levels.
Dr. Adams is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute, Denver, Colorado, where she lectures on Catholic education, the social teachings of Benedict XVI, and culture and the New Evangelization. She has presented at the Center for Ethics and Culture Conference (University of Notre Dame), the Symposium on Advancing the New Evangelization (Benedictine College), the Archdiocese of Seattle, Diocese of Burlington, Diocese of Superior, and other locations around the country. She is a contributor to the theology textbook Why Believe? and her work has appeared in the Church Life Journal and Faith and Culture. She has developed curriculum for the Diocese of Metuchen and Vianney Vocations and is the author of By an Unexpected Way: Stories of the New Evangelization, relating interview-based stories of American priest and lay apostolates since Vatican II (Augustine Institute Press, 2019). Dr. Adams is Writer-in-Residence at St. Boniface Catholic Church, president of the Aquinas Education Foundation, and the founder of Bardstreet, offering youth theater camps, seminars, and other ventures. Learn more at Bardstreet.com.