John Mabry has spent  nineteen years in pastoral ministry, and fourteen years in private practice as a spiritual director, serving people of different generations.

For five years he edited Presence: An International Journey of Spiritual Direction, the professional journal for spiritual directors, and currently directs the interfaith spiritual direction certificate program at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry, in Berkeley, CA.

He has published several books, including Noticing the Divine: An Introduction to Interfaith Guidance, a textbook for interfaith spiritual direction, published by Morehouse in 2006.

A United Church of Christ minister, John is pastor of Grace North Church (Congregational) in Berkeley, California.