Jimmy is the rector of St. John’s in Jackson. Before moving to Jackson, he was the founder and priest at Thad’s, an experimental congregation of the Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California. He has also served as the Campus Missioner at the University of Texas in Austin, at All Saints’ in Austin, Texas, and All Saints’ Parish in Beverly Hills, California. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Virginia Theological Seminary. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and in years past has worked with Red Bull High Performance, teaching athletes spiritual disciplines, with Naval Special Warfare, working to create systems for character development within special operations teams, and was a speaker at TEDx, Venice Beach. In Jackson, he serves as Vice Chair of the board of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.

He is dad to Jas, a member of Community Entry Services, and Jade, a junior at Bowdoin College. The Bartzes love to spend time outside mountaineering, skiing, fly-fishing, hunting and surfing. Jimmy is currently working on a memoir that includes reflection on trauma and recovery, risk as a spiritual discipline, and mysticism in the context of hyper-rational culture.

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