About
Michael Hinton is a bishop in the Evangelical Episcopal Communion, an international convergence movement that draws upon the best of the three streams of Anglican spirituality: liturgical, evangelical, and charismatic. He enjoys producing content to build up the body of Christ. Having been published in a college composition text, Michael went on to be cited in a post-graduate text, MORAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONS: Judeo-Christian Alternatives to Piaget/Kohlberg by Donald M. Joy, 1983. He most recently contributed a chapter to FLIPPING TABLES: The Seven Deadly Sins and Stories of Redemption, by Luanne Nelson, 2022.
Michael grew up the son of an Architect in Snyder, an oil town in West Texas. He lettered in Basketball, Track, Speech, and Drama, belonged to the Snyder chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and was Chaplain of the Student Council. As a teenager Michael worked on his dad's construction sites during the summers and year round on the family ranch in Comanche County, Texas.
Michael became a Student Pastor in the United Methodist Church in 1975 when only 19 years old.
A graduate of McMurry College, Michael matriculated to Asbury Theological Seminary where he earned the Master of Divinity degree in 1981.
During seminary, Michael served as Choir and Youth Director at First United Methodist Church of Paris, Kentucky. After seminary he served as Associate Pastor and Pastor in Charge of churches in Northwest Texas and Arkansas. In all Michael was a Methodist minister for 25 years.
In addition to his duties at church, Michael taught ethics at the University of Central Arkansas, and then religion and philosophy at Western Texas College, which included classes at three prisons of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
In 2000 Michael suffered a terrible boating accident that nearly killed him. The story of his miraculous survival is told in the FLIPPING TABLES book above.
Michael then worked as a case manager for Elder Independence of Maine, as a personal health care manager for his parents in Snyder, and as a disability consultant for the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church.
Ordained deacon in 2016 and priest in 2018 in the Anglican Church of North America, Michael worked as a church planter in Lubbock, Texas.
Michael was consecrated bishop in the Evangelical Episcopal Communion in 2025. He and Mary have 6 children and 13 grandchildren.