Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin (she/her)

Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin (she/her) is Co-Moderator of More Light Presbyterians. She is lifelong Presbyterian: beginning her journey in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland before moving to the US in 2011. Her move across the ocean has a deep connection to More Light. When it became clear to Ashley that she was unable to serve as an openly queer person in her home denomination, she found the website of More Light and it prompted a journey to Nashville. Ashley pursued theological education and studied at Vanderbilt Divinity School. In 2018 she was the first openly queer person ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament by the Presbytery of Middle Tennessee. Ashley currently serves as the Pastor of Lake View Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Ashley is a passionate Irish rugby fan, has a mixed up Larne/Nashville accent, and in the words of her wife “has a laugh that can be heard from miles away.”