Mother Storm has been the rector of St. James the Less since 2016. Her responsibilities at St. James include preaching and teaching each week, tending to the congregations's pastoral needs, and managing the organizational and administrative operations of the church.
Mother Storm is very active in the wider Scarsdale community as a parent of two school-age children, an instructor in religion and literature at the Scarsdale Adult School, and a member of the Interfaith Clergy Council. In the Diocese of New York, She serves on the Reparations Committee, the Campus Ministry Committee, and is the Dean of the lower Westchester clergy clericus.
Before coming to St. James, Mother Storm was the rector of St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson, an Episcopal parish on the Hudson River that she grew from a small, mission parish to a full-fledged Episcopal Church during her 10 years there. Before that, she was at Grace Church in Manhattan. Her ministry began in Columbus, Ohio, where she was served as a curate (assistant priest) after graduating from Yale Divinity School (2001). Please feel free to contact Mother Storm any time at rector@stjamesscarsdale.org. You can read her sermons here.
