Lynn Miller (M.Div., ’91) has spent her life working in and around the intersection of faith and art. She has worked as a graphic designer, a museum educator, an associate pastor, a secondary art teacher, a freelance artist/designer, and an adjunct college instructor. She is currently pastor of Limestone Presbyterian Church in Gaffney, SC.
Lynn likes school. She holds the BFA in graphic design from MS University for Women. She earned the MA in the history of art from the University of Georgia, where her thesis focused on John Calvin’s theology of art. She received the M.Div. from UPSem and the D.Min. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Her D.Min. project was Living Stones, I Presume: Assessing the Theological Motivations of Church Architectural Styles. Her final degree (for now, anyway) is a recently completed MFA in Creative Writing from her first alma mater, MS University for Women. Her thesis was a poetry collection titled Here is the Church. Lynn’s five-poem sequence on the 11th-century architectural sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt has been published by The Ekphrastic Review.
A native of Mississippi, Lynn is a member of Foothills Presbytery. She has been active in Presbyterian Women as the Communications chair for PW in the Presbytery of Mississippi, as the designer of the Honorary Life Membership Pin, and as the author/illustrator of the 2020-2021 PW Bible Study Into the Light: Finding Hope Through Prayers of Lament. She will present the workshop “Stitched: Handsewing as Meditation and Metaphor” at the 2023 APCE Annual Event in Birmingham. She has designed coloring books, textile pieces, and stained glass, has been a keynote speaker at retreats and conferences, has helped design art-based VBS curriculum, and has given presentations and written art guides for various congregations.
In her free time Lynn reads cookbooks and other non-fiction, plays the piano, enjoys photography, and watches a probably-unhealthy number of British gardening shows.