Adam Gilbert Bartholomew was ordained as a United Church of Christ pastor in 1968 and as an Episcopal priest in 2002. He received his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1974. He served churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, and has assisted his wife, The Rev. Dr. Linda Bartholomew, first in Spokane Valley and now in Moscow, Idaho. He taught as an adjunct at Lancaster Theological Seminary for 25 years. He is Co-Founder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers, Int.
Since 2014 he has been teaching as an adjunct at Gonzaga University in Religious Studies a course titled “Healing Creation.” With Joan Connell he is author of Healing All Creation: Genesis, The Gospel of Mark, and the Story of the Universe.