Sam Voelkel
Director of Music
Sam was born in New Orleans and raised across the lake in Mandeville before attending college at Auburn University. After school, he moved to Charlottesville, VA for the Trinity Fellows Program, a leadership development year focused on applying a Christian worldview to the workplace. Sam met his wife, Hope, in Charlottesville where they lived for 13 years before moving back to New Orleans in 2016. They live uptown with their daughter, Nola, son, Wyler, and dog, Indie.
Sam spends his free time coaching his kids in softball, running/biking short distances at slow speeds, and trying to learn his favorite 90's guitar solos.
Benjamin Morris
Facilities
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Benjamin spent nearly a decade overseas pursuing graduate work in literature and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh (MSc) and the University of Cambridge (PhD). Now a recovering academic, he works primarily in the arts, and is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His theological writing regularly appears in byFaith magazine, engaging matters of beauty, liturgy, and church history; here at Resurrection, he curates our “Notes on the Hymns” supplement.
Currently he serves as the butler to a loving, if opinionated, tortoiseshell named Snickers. When his nose isn't stuck in a book, Benjamin can be found in the workshop with sawdust in his hair, in the gym with chalk on his palms, or out in the yard with dirt on his knees, trying to coax fruit out of his fledgling citrus trees. They remain unconvinced.