My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I retired from active parish ministry in 2025. I served as rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Uvalde, Texas, 2005-2025 and as assistant rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Kerrville, Texas, 2003-2005.

I am married to Cyndy. We have two sons. Our older son died in a work related accident in 2009. Our younger son and his wife live in Texas. I enjoy cycling, backpacking, and reading.

I’ve wanted to be a priest since elementary school. As many do, however, I took the longer road. Before going to seminary I practiced law for fifteen years. 

My formal education includes:

• BS, University of Texas at El Paso, 1982;
• JD, Texas Tech University School of Law, 1985;
• MDiv, The School of Theology, University of the South – Sewanee, 2003; and
• DMin, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 2012.

Though my life is active I try to live contemplatively with silence, stillness, and solitude. I try to base all that I do and am in a life of prayer and study. My life and theology have been deeply formed by desert, monastic, and contemplative spirituality; the patristic tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy; and Jungian psychology. 

Why Interrupting the Silence?

Why the title Interrupting the Silence? St. John of the Cross, a 16th century mystic and poet, said that silence is God’s first language. My life of prayer and study are attempts, through God’s grace and blessing, to become fluent in that language. Who, then, am I to interrupt the silence, to interrupt God with my words? 

I read somewhere that if our words will not contribute to the silence then we should say nothing. I offer my words, interrupting the silence, with the hope that somehow they might contribute to the silence.

The words I offer are my own, though not always original with me. They do not necessarily represent the views of the parishes I have served, the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, the Episcopal Church, or any other group or organization.

“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart 
be acceptable to you, O Lord.”
– Psalm 19:14