The Rev. William Bradley Roberts, D.M.A, is emeritus professor of church music at Virginia Theological Seminary in suburban Washington, D.C., currently living in Richmond, Va.

He is a priest, spiritual director, conductor, composer, and singer. In addition to VTS, he has taught at several colleges and seminaries and served in parishes from California to Washington, D.C.

A native of Mississippi, Roberts has served on faculty many times and first attended as a conferee in 1980 at Camp Bratton-Green. He delights in renewing his native tongue upon each trip to the conference and learning some new Southern “stoh-rihs.”