The Reverend Christian Hawley is a priest at St Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Austin TX, where he runs with Trail Roots running club and his dog, MacGyver. Before answering the call to ministry, he was a military officer in the Middle East, a children’s book salesman in Appalachia, a Buddhist student in Nepal, a hospital chaplain in Idaho, and a bartender in Las Vegas. Now, most of his adventures are in the mountains of West Texas with his wife Madeline, who is also a priest.