Meet theologian & author Bill Huebsch

Bill Huebsch is a husband, an author, a gardener, an advocate for the poor, and a bit of a monk. He did his grad work in pastoral theology at Catholic Theological Union of Chicago, where he was in the Rahner Seminar with Peter Schineller SJ. He served on the team with +Ray Lucker at the Diocese of New Ulm for eight years in the 1980s and is the retired president and publisher of Twenty-Third Publications. In retirement he served on the adjunct faculty of the IPS at Loyola Chicago where he taught grad level courses in pastoral theology and helped guide their Certificate in Pastoral Ministry in the UK. 

He is actively involved with Common Hope and serves on their Board of Directors. Common Hope serves the abandoned and poor of Guatemala with education, housing, medical needs, and life-coaching. 

He writes in an ecumenical spirit and leaves his readers profoundly inspired. He believes that speaking and writing in plain English (y tambien en español sencillo) helps folks understand the vocabulary of pastoral ministry. He brings humor and hope to his presentations and provides people with practical tools for ministry! He lives with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota and they belong to St Cecilia Parish.