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  • Frances and Sean Conversation with Rev. Dr. Gini Norris- Lane
    3/9/26

    Frances and Sean Conversation with Rev. Dr. Gini Norris- Lane

    Rev. Dr. Virginia “Gini” Norris-Lane became the executive director of UKirk in July, 2019, after having previously served as campus minister at Schreiner University in Kerrville, TX from 2005-2019. She holds degrees from Temple Junior College (AA), Baylor University (BS in Education), Austin Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Doctor of Ministry). She has been ordained in the PC(USA) since 1999. In addition to coordinating a grant for the PC(USA) from the Lilly Endowment prior to her career in campus ministry, she served congregations in San Antonio, TX, and Conyers, GA. From January, 2021 to August, 2023, she also served as the part-time stated supply pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde, Texas.

    Gini, as she likes to be called, has written curriculum for the PC(USA) on the book of Revelation, has published articles for the Columbia Theological Seminary journal and Branching Out, the Presbyterian College Chaplains Association publication, and The Presbyterian Outlook. She has led retreats at Mo Ranch and at various congregations across Texas, as well as served on local and national boards for non-profits. Active also in interfaith work, she and her colleague and friend Rabbi Allison Bergman Vann have led workshops on interfaith engagement in San Antonio, Texas and Cleveland, Ohio. She and her husband, Wes Lane, have two sons, Austin and Max, and a daughter, Chrissy Stevens. They live in Kerrville, Texas. 

  • Frances and Sean Conversation with Rev. Dr. Sam Codington.
    2/26/26

    Frances and Sean Conversation with Rev. Dr. Sam Codington.

    Sam Codington joined the McGregor family as pastor in February of 2025. He grew up as a pastor’s kid in a Presbyterian church in the Upstate of South Carolina. After college, he moved to California and received a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary. While he was a pastor in San Diego, he was the moderator of San Diego Presbytery (2023), and he served as a commissioner to the 225th and 226th General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

    He writes at the intersections of liberation theology, postcolonial studies, ecology, and poetry. He has written two books, Listening as Hosts: Liturgically Facing Colonization and White Supremacy (2024)and Searching for Speech: Preaching in the Ruins of the Anthropocene (2026).

    When he’s not doing churchy things or reading a good book, he enjoys running and walking at the Harbison State Forest and the Congaree National Park.

    He is married to Esther, and they have a son, Ezra, and a Golden Retriever, Marley.