We are pleased to announce that Rev. Fr. Duane Johnson will be the speaker at the 2020 Three Hierarch Academic Lecture, scheduled for Feb. 8 at 6:30pm. His topic for the evening will be “Justifying Galatians.” Please plan on joining us on Feb 8 as we welcome Fr. Duane and Presbytera Sandra to our Parish.
About Fr. Duane & Presbytera Sandra Johnson
Reverend Father Duane Johnson serves at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore, MD. A native of Ohio, Fr. Duane served in the U.S. Army from 1975-1979. By 1985 he earned both an undergraduate and a graduate degree in Anthropology from Ohio State University. He graduated from St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1997 with an MDiv degree.
He and his family returned to Maryland where he began his priestly ministry at the Orthodox Church of St. Matthew (OCA) in Columbia, MD. He was received into the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in 2014. In 2018 the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies (OCABS) published his first book, “To the Galatians: A Translation and Commentary." In his review of the book Creighton University Professor Dr. Nicolae Roddy writes that Fr. Duane “…reads St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians with close fidelity to the text, the result of which is to hear the text as Scripture, offering a hermeneutical advantage often missed in Pauline studies.” Fr. Duane is currently working on his second book.
Presbytera Sandra Stanar-Johnson has been an employee of the National Security Agency since 1986 where she is currently a senior executive leader. She was born in West Virginia, and she worked as a journalist in both international and domestic assignments before earning an M.A. degree in Islamic History. She has written a book "God's Child Andrew" (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998), and it tells the story of their son Andrew who died in an automobile accident in 1993.
Father Duane and Presbytera Sandra have two children, both 27 years in age: their daughter, Ariana; and an adopted daughter, Maricela, who is from Guatemala.