He is also the author of several works on Christian spirituality and theology, including Reconstructing Prayer, Washed in the Spirit, and Boundless Love. His poetry collections—The Silence That Answers Back, A Weathered Ship, Time in Shenandoah, and A Funeral in the Wild—explore themes of land, family, memory, fracture, and longing. His poems have appeared in a growing number of literary journals, including Ink, Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, tiny wren lit, among many others. Across genres, his writing pursues a language spacious enough to hold both clarity and the mystery of Christian spirituality.

Andrew serves as Lead Pastor at Church on the Hill in Fishersville, Virginia, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a St. Basil Fellow with the Center for Pastor Theologians and teaches theology as an adjunct professor at Bethel Seminary (Bethel University) and Portland Seminary (George Fox University). In addition to his pastoral and teaching work, he collaborates with theological schools and ministry organizations in short-term faculty formation and continuing education engagements, with a focus on pastoral formation, theological anthropology, and the lived realities of ministry.

He lives in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and children, where he writes in the quiet hours, preaches, teaches, hikes, and drinks a lot of coffee.

Andrew Ray Williams (PhD, Bangor University, Wales) is a poet, pastor, and professor living in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where he works at the intersection of pastoral ministry, theological education, and formation.