About Brad
The Rev. Dr. Brad Munroe is a veteran of twenty-five years of pastoral ministry leading Presbyterian congregations and currently serves as Pastor to the Presbytery for two presbyteries, Grand Canyon and de Cristo, whose territory encompasses all of Arizona and a portion of western New Mexico.
Brad received his Bachelor’s in Religion and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College, where he received the outstanding student award from the philosophy and religion department and earned All-American honors for CMC’s Division II and III water polo national champions. From CMC, Brad went to New Jersey where he received his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and then to San Anselmo where he received his D.Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary, receiving the award for “Outstanding Contribution to Ministry” for his thesis on Reformed Worship in which he coined the term “blended worship.”
Brad has studied family systems theory extensively and taken courses offered by the Lombard-Mennonite Peacemaking Center and the Healthy Congregations Institute, which was founded by Peter Steinke. He is a certified instructor in conflict transformation, healthy congregations and interim ministry.
Brad is married to Laura, a hospice chaplain and also a Presbyterian minister. Brad and Laura have two adult children, Chris, who lives in Tucson, and Matt, who lives in San Antonio. He loves to hike, write and is a first-class nerd who loves Harry Potter, BOTH Star Wars AND Star Trek as well as embarrassing his children with a well-timed “Dad Joke.”
Brad received his Bachelor’s in Religion and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College, where he received the outstanding student award from the philosophy and religion department and earned All-American honors for CMC’s Division II and III water polo national champions. From CMC, Brad went to New Jersey where he received his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and then to San Anselmo where he received his D.Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary, receiving the award for “Outstanding Contribution to Ministry” for his thesis on Reformed Worship in which he coined the term “blended worship.”
Brad has studied family systems theory extensively and taken courses offered by the Lombard-Mennonite Peacemaking Center and the Healthy Congregations Institute, which was founded by Peter Steinke. He is a certified instructor in conflict transformation, healthy congregations and interim ministry.
Brad is married to Laura, a hospice chaplain and also a Presbyterian minister. Brad and Laura have two adult children, Chris, who lives in Tucson, and Matt, who lives in San Antonio. He loves to hike, write and is a first-class nerd who loves Harry Potter, BOTH Star Wars AND Star Trek as well as embarrassing his children with a well-timed “Dad Joke.”