Clergy & Staff

Elizabeth Nash joins the Resurrection Staff as the Director of Children’s and Family Ministry.  She will also assist in revamping our accounting procedures in order to bring all financial operations in house.

Janice Brush is the chief among our church volunteers.  She serves several days a week as the parish secretary and handles almost anything — from accounts payable to scheduling.

Dr. Mark Ring serves as Director of Music Ministries at the Church of the Resurrection. He was formerly Director of Choral Activities at the University of Notre Dame and Director of Music Ministries at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Lipscomb University, Concordia College, and North Dakota State University; and was Assistant University Organist/Choirmaster at Yale University and Director of Chapel Music at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He holds nine Grammy Signature Awards and has conducted throughout the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean, including Carnegie Hall, Mont St-Michel, and in audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. He holds the DMA, MMA, and MM degrees in Conducting from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. He did further study with George Guest at St. John’s College, Cambridge University; and with Daniel Roth at St-Sulpice, Paris. He has extensive experience conducting opera and choral-orchestral works.

Mark has two young adult children in college, loves hiking and travel, enjoys exploring cultures and their foods, and is active in multifamily real estate investing.

Karen Nicolosi comes to the Church of the Resurrection after nearly forty years as Music Director at Christ Episcopal Church Tuscaloosa, Alabama. During her tenure there she created a comprehensive choral program for 3 year olds through adults.

In addition to the five church choirs, she founded The Alabama Boychoir and The Alabama Choir School which were six auditioned choirs that served the West Alabama community. All but the youngest choirs toured annually in such venues as the Washington National Cathedral, Carnegie Hall, Westminster Abbey, and Canterbury Cathdrals.

John is a husband, father and physician who has practiced Psychiatry and Hospice and Palliative Medicine in a variety of healthcare environments. He currently serves as Director of the VA’s Clinical Resource Hub program providing telehealth care to Veterans in Kentucky and Tennessee.  He and his wife Susan have been members of Church of the Resurrection since 2015. From 2016- 2018, he served as a member of the Resurrection Vestry, including a term as Senior Warden. He and Susan have four adult children and three adorable granddaughters.

Charles Brush has been a member of the Church of the Resurrection for nearly a decade. He is a Lay Eucharistic Minister (LEM), a member of the finance committee and a two-time Junior Warden and vestry member. Charlie has attended the Rector’s Wednesday evening Dinner and Bible study since it started. His prayer for the Church of the Resurrection is that it grow as a place of worship and fellowship for our community.