The Rev. Bradley C. Dyche (pronounced “dike”) has been elected as rector of St. Luke’s, Stephenville. Dyche officially assumes his new role on Easter Day.
He originally hails from Enid, Oklahoma and his family’s wheat and cattle farm in Waynoka, Oklahoma. He attended Texas Tech University, where he joined the Canterbury Campus Ministry and gained a sense of community and calling. He then transferred and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1998.
Dyche graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York City in 2002, helping in the aftermath of 9/11. He then spent the next 15 years in two parishes in the Diocese of New York. His last cure was for eleven years as rector of St. Augustine’s Church in Croton on Hudson, New York. He moved to the DFW area last summer.
He is father to Sheridan, age 7, and husband to Frank De Jesus. He enjoys cooking, hiking, kayaking, gardening and reading and spending time at his family farm in Oklahoma. He also has a great theological interest in the works of Rene Girard concerning Mimetic Anthropology. He has served as president of Theology and Peace, a group dedicated to this theological work, asking how and why humans scapegoat others and how that relates to our concepts of God.