The+Rev.+Michael+Tippett

Michael Tippett is Rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Owatonna. He first read theology as an undergraduate at Oxford University. Later, he was a British Army officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, with commands ranging from squadrons of armor, to covert surveillance troops in Northern Ireland. He has lived in Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Peru, India, Syria and Germany, where he spent 8 years waiting to see what the Russians were going to do next.

Then came a renewed and different call to ministry, that led first to Yale Divinity School. The next 7 or 8 years were spent in serving large congregations, but now he finds that he is passionate about living out the Gospel in a small church community. In 2000, Michael founded (and directed) the seminars for Organizational Leadership and Theology.

He is the co-director of Teens Encounter Christ in St. Paul. He is Scots, studied military matters at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Staff College, Camberley, and theology at Oxford and Yale; he plays Scots and Irish fiddle, coaches soccer, plays squash, and wishes he still played rugby. He has two adult children at college, who are a good substitute for any sport, and his pride and joy.