About

 

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 Spring Green Memorial Church. 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 am not a High Calvinist when it comes to predestination. If you push me hard, I take Arminius’ side in that debate.

Ever since seminary I have been doing church. My wife, Sharon, has decided to keep me even after 39 years, and my two boys still talk to me. One has his PhD from the University of Chicago and is now doing a post doc at Harvard. He is a Medical Physicist. The other is a graduate student at the University of CA at Santa Barbara (where the weather report almost never changes) in Material Sciences. Sharon is a second grade teacher.  Living things do well around her – people, animals and plants.

I can’t get along without my iPhone and Kindle. 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 and riding my 1985 Honda Magna. I took the carbs off and cleaned them myself. Quite a job for an all-thumbs mechanic. Runs perfect. Next job is to replace the fork bushings.