I am addicted to church. It could be that the only reason I am a pastor is that I get paid the big bucks to hang around church full-time. A lot happens when a group of men and women, boys and girls decide to live out life together going face-to-face with Jesus. It’s not always easy, but it’s never boring. And a lot of good stuff happens. One of my brothers, Kenny, is also a Pastor, and from what I hear a much better one than me. He also has more hair.

I am the Pastor of Coastal Church, Hanover, MA, (eleven years now) a nondenominational community church that meets in the Hanover Business Park. I also teach in college: Philosophy (my favorite class), Bible, Speech, Living Issues (Ethics), Christian Traditions, and Professional Business Communication. I teach at both the Eastern Nazarene College and at Massasoit College.

Norfolk, VA is my home, graduating from Old Dominion University in 1971 with a major in history and a minor in philosophy. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is in my blood and helped shape a lot of my worldview. I graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1979, a great theological education but I could never do the “reformed thing” very well. I buy in theologically but the reformed culture is not very friendly. My broad evangelicalism always kept kicking in.

Ever since seminary I have been doing church. My wife has decided to keep me even after 34 years, and my two boys still talk to me. One is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and the other a graduate student at the University of CA at Santa Barbara (where the weather report almost never changes). Oh, yeh – Sandy, our cocker spaniel, keeps us from being fully empty-nesters. Taking care of her keeps Sharon from going out and signing up a whole new group of kids to raise. She’s good at that kind of thing. Living things do well around her. No plants die around this house!

I can’t get along without my Palm Pilot, iPod, and pen scanner (a handheld scanner that I use to take notes and download into my computer). I think I would rather have an Apple computer but I am not brave enough to change out right now. My friends who have Apples love theirs. My friends with PCs tolerate theirs.

I like working out at the gym which is about 300 yards from the church. That’s where I am during lunch time. I would like to be out on my motorcycle, but it got old and repairs would cost too much. So I am waiting to win the lottery before I get my next one.