My wife and I are both originally from Oklahoma, but our family has lived in middle Tennessee since 1995. I graduated in 1980 from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and worked in the petroleum industry before entering vocational ministry. I completed the Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, with a concentration in Church History. I was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America in 1998 and am currently pursuing ordination in the Anglican Mission in North America.
I currently serve as Team Leader for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministry at Vanderbilt University, and have direct ministry roles working with students and faculty at the Owen School of Management and the Vanderbilt Graduate School.In addition to my campus ministry, I serve part-time as an Assisting Pastor at Church of the Redeemer,
C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, and Eugene Peterson are formative influences in my spiritual and vocational development. I love being in the outdoors, am an avid “birder” (a serious bird-watcher), love golf (currently a 12 handicap), and read novels (some of my favorite authors: Wallace Stegner, Flannery O’Connor, Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, P.D. James, and Kent Haruf).
