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Gender	Male
Occupation	Pastor, Ohio Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Location	Columbus, Ohio, United States
Introduction	I grew up on a North Dakota farm. I attended Sheyenne River Academy, Walla Walla College, Andrews University Theological Seminary, and in 1999 earned a D.Min. from the San Francisco Theological Seminary. I've served churches in North Dakota, South Dakota, California, and Ohio. I work for the Ohio Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. I write for several magazines, including Signs of the Times, Ministry and The Adventist Review, and I edit a newsletter for pastors called Best Practices for Adventist Ministry. Some of my on-line writing is indexed here. I'm also an executive board member for Amistad International. My wife, Carmen, is an ordained minister and a hospice chaplain. We love gardening, travel and reading.
Interests	Gardening, travel, reading great books, cats, nature, flowers, art museums, museums of all kinds
Favorite books	The Bible, of course—especially the gospels. To me, the gospels give the bulk of the story about God's love that we need to hear. I love preaching from them. I like Charles Dickens novels—English Victorian literature generally. I like short stories, especially W. Somerset Maugham, Guy du Maupassant and Saki. And though it isn't a book, for most of my life I've read The Atlantic Monthly cover to cover. I also read poetry; my favorites are Robert Frost and Louis MacNeice.