St. Helena's Episcopal Church
Burr Ridge, Illinois

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Last updated: May 8, 2006

The Rev. Dr. Robert O. Wyatt is rector of St. Helena's Episcopal Church, Bur Ridge, IL. He is also adjunct professor of church history at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, where he previously served as a trustee. He is chair of the board at Canterbury Northwestern, the Episcopal campus ministry at Northwestern University.

 Before coming to St. Helena’s, Wyatt was Lilly Endowment curate at the Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park, IL.

 Prior to ordination in 2004, he was director of communication research and professor of journalism at Middle Tennessee State University for 25 years. Before that, he taught English and journalism at the University of Tennessee-Nashville.

Wyatt served as survey research adviser to the Freedom Forum First Administration Center at Vanderbilt University and book review editor for the Nashville Tennessean. He has chaired Pulitzer Prize letters juries four times and received research awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the World Association for Public Opinion Research for his inquiries into public support for free expression in the United States, Israel, Russia, and Hong Kong. He is author of Free Expression and the American Public (ASNE, 1991) and co-author of Free Expression in Five Democratic Publics (Hampton, 2004), as well as numerous academic articles.

Wyatt holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of the South – Sewanee, master's degrees from Northwestern University (English), the University of Tennessee (Communication), and Vanderbilt Divinity School (pastoral studies), and a doctorate from Northwestern University (English Renaissance literature). He also holds a certificate of study from Seabury. His wife, Terri Lackey, is managing editor of the magazine of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

7600 Wolf Road
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
Phone: 630-662-5660 ~ Fax: 630-662-5661
Email Rector: 
Email Church Office: rwyatt@sthelenaschurch.org

Rector:
The Rev. Dr. Robert O. Wyatt