Originally from Wisconsin, the Rev. Greg Han has lived in the Houston area since 1998. He earned a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Religion at Rice University.
He also teaches at the Post Oak High School, where he has taught courses in ethics, IB Economics in Historical Context, and currently teaches IB Theory of Knowledge. You can learn more at www.postoakschool.org.
From June 2014 until January 2022, Rev. Han served as the Director of Interfaith Relations & Education at Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IM). In his time at IM, he expanded IM’s faith community connections and educational offerings, and was lauded for his guidance for faith communities through COVID. He taught classes and seminars on Houston’s religious diversities as well as classes on specific religions. He gave presentations and seminars on the importance of building diverse and inclusive spaces, and specifically on building spaces of belonging in religiously diverse contexts.
He was on the faculty at St. John’s School in Houston from September 2008 to May 2014, where he directed the Upper School’s Chapel program. He developed and taught electives in World Religions, the History of Christianities, and ethics/moral reasoning. He also taught language and literature courses at the 9th and 12th grade levels; he especially enjoyed teaching two courses for seniors exploring the intersection of ethics and literature and spirituality and literature.
He has served as an Adjunct Professor in Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary’s Christian-Jewish Relations Certificate Program. He has been a frequent instructor for the Women’s Institute of Houston; besides courses on a variety of religions, he has taught classes on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as well as a series of classes on moral reasoning.
He has taught at the university level in the Honors College at the University of Houston; during the 2019-2020 academic year he taught a section of the College’s “Human Situation” foundational humanities course. He has also presented at the American Academy of Religion, of which he has been a member since 2007. He presented at the virtual meeting of the Parliament of World Religions in October of 2021.
Ordained in 2000, Greg also has over twenty years of pastoral experience as a Presbyterian minister, with nearly eight years of experience pastoring churches. He was the Associate Pastor at St. Philip Presbyterian Church from 2000-2004 and then the Pastor of Atascocita Presbyterian Church from late 2004 until early 2008. He earned four units of Clinical Pastoral Education, or CPE, with three of those units from a full-year residency at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital. He continues to preach frequently across the Houston area; recently, he was the temporary pulpit preacher for First Presbyterian, Conroe, from September 2023-September 2024.
My resume can be found here.
