Walking alongside people seeking deeper meaning.

Inner Life Spiritual Direction was founded by Rev. Ryan Irmer, a certified spiritual director trained through Francis House of Prayer, a spiritual center of the Catholic Diocese of Trenton.

Ryan spent twelve years in basketball — coaching, recruiting, and fundraising at high schools, colleges, and universities, including an NCAA Division II staff — alongside athletes of every age, background, and gender, and teaching physical education alongside it. He later went on to seminary and ministry: a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Missional Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, an associate pastorate in Northern Ireland, and congregations across New Jersey. Today he is Lead Pastor of Wilson Memorial Union Church, an interdenominational congregation in Watchung, New Jersey. He and the congregation are both affiliated with the International Council of Community Churches — and he brings both worlds to this work.

Listen to Ryan preach — Wilson’s Weekly Word · weekly messages from Sunday worship at Wilson Memorial Union Church

With twelve years of memories and accomplishments as a coach behind him, Ryan is working to bring the sports world and the religious landscape into one space. Those years showed him a real and largely unmet need: players, coaches, trainers, staff, and administrators all carry a great deal, and rarely have a place to tend their inner life.