committee, Episcopalian and Roman Catholic Diocesan Ecumenical Officers (1988–93), and from 1988 to 1989, was canon theologian in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, where he was also associate ecumenical officer (1984–89) and chair of the board of examining chaplains (1988–89). The next year he became rector at Grace Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. (1989-2003); meanwhile, he was reader of General Ordination Examinations in the Diocese of Washington (1991-2003), co-chaired the Washington Diocese Medical Ethics Committee (1997–99), and was theological consultant for Bishop Walter Righter’s defense brief (1996). He has served as dean and rector of the historic Trinity Cathedral, San Jose, Ca. (2003 to the present). During this time, he was visitor and chaplain of the College of Early Christian Studies (2013 to present). Publications and contributions Models of Ecumenism. (Chicago: National Ecumenical Consultation, 1987). Liberal Theology: A Tradition in the Church, Mission and Ministry, 6, 2 (1988). A Plea for the Voiceless: The Child, the Reshaped Family and the Church. Mission and Ministry, 6, 4 (1989). Terminal Illness and Assisted Suicide: Medical and Christian Moral Perspective. Cathedral Papers, 6 (Washington National Cathedral, 1993). Receiving the Vision: The Anglican Roman Catholic Reality Today (Liturgical Press: Collegeville, MN., 1995). Before You Need Them, (Forward Movement Press, 1995). Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Christian Moral Perspectives. "The Washington Report," Committee on Medical Ethics, Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. (Morehouse Barlow, 1997). Toward a Good Christian Death (Morehouse Barlow, 1999). Serving Unity (EDEO-NADEO Standing Committee, 2000). Make Us One with Christ, an official report presented to the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church (2006). Paper on the current state of relationship between the Church of England and the British Methodist bodies presented to the Episcopal Church-United Methodist Church Dialogue (2007). Rome and Canterbury: The Elusive Search for Unity (review), The Catholic Historical Review. Volume 94, Number 4, October 2008, pp. 744–745. Two papers presented to the National Workshop on Christian Unity on the current state of the Episcopal Church-United Methodist Church dialog, 2009. Noel A. Davies, A History of Ecumenism in Wales, 1956-1990 (review), Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 45, 2010. Community service From 1992 to 2003 Bird was a member of the Institutional Review Board for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as well as the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. (1989-2003), where he served as ethics advisor regarding experimental medical protocols on patients. While rector, he was on the board