Leadership & Staff

The Rev. Dr. Jady Koch, president of The Davenant Institute, is a graduate of Washington & Lee University (B.A., 2000), Trinity Anglican Seminary (M.Div., 2007), and the Humboldt University of Berlin (D.Theol., 2016). In addition to numerous presentations, articles, and book chapters on Reformation theology, Dr. Koch is the author of The Distinction Between Law and Gospel as the Basis and Boundary of Theological Reflection, which explores the interrelationship between the doctrine of justification by faith alone and the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.

He has served Anglican congregations in Berlin, Vienna, Kentucky, South Carolina, and now Michigan; and he and his wife, Liza, have seven children (Tucker, John, Carrington, Garland, Davis, Bradford, and George) and a corgi named Abby.

Dr. Carl E. “Tripp” Young III, Davenant’s Chief Operating Officer, served as Chairman and Associate Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College, MI where he taught courses on ancient Greek, Latin, and Greco-Roman literature and culture. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought and its reception in the Renaissance. He has published on Plato, Polybius, Tacitus, and Thomas More. He is co-author of a new translation of Thomas More’s Utopia and Selected Epigrams (CTMS Publishers, University of Dallas, 2023) and Latin Epigrams (CTMS Publishers, University of Dallas, forthcoming). His current book project, God is the Measure of All Things: The Political Theology of Plato’s Laws, is supported by a Chairman’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.