The Reverend James R. Squire has spent thirty-eight years teaching ethics as the head chaplain at the Episcopal Academy near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He specializes as well in bioethics, faith development, positive psychology, counseling psychology, diversity work, and the development of student leaders. He was chair of the Religion Department. After the 9/11 attacks, he created a national conference on "Understanding Islam."
Squire has served as chief pastor to thousands of people who make up the school community. He was a founding board member and counselor at the Marianist Counseling Center in Chester, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the Middleton Counseling Center in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
He holds degrees from West Chester University, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, and Duke University where he was the Jarvis Traveling Fellow to Duke from Berkeley. He was among the first in his family to attend college and values his work as a laborer in a steel mill to pay for his college education as one of the most valuable learning experiences of his life.
He now works to assist Episcopal schools at the national level in any way that he is needed.
