Personal Info

I am part of the “Baby Boom” generation post-WWII. We came of age during a tumultuous decade. We endured the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. We witnessed the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Apollo landing on the moon, and Watergate’s resulting resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. (See Tom Brokaw, Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ‘60s and Today, New York: Random House, 2007.)

A Slidell High School graduate in 1969, I then went to college at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. I helped put myself through college by painting with a private contractor and never have escaped that line of work ever afterwards. At the same time, a painting occupation left me with an enduring appreciation for fine wood, furniture refinishing, and antiques. I responded to the call to full-time ministry at the beginning of my senior year at Southern, graduating that May with a double major in math and physics. During seminary days in New Orleans I pastored a small church in Slidell. After seminary I worked seven years in Baptist Campus Ministry at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama. I returned to the seminary to teach in 1988 , also serving in interim pastorates, conferences, retreats, and revivals.

What you should know

Occupation:

Professor, Minister

Hobbies:

Photography, Guitar, Recording, Music, Aquariums, Zoos, Computers, Audio/Video, Movies, Woodworking, Refinishing, Antiques, Restaurants

FAvorite Dessert:

Mr. Ed’s Lemon Icebox Pie

Favorite Appetizer:

Drago’s Charbroiled Oysters

FAvorite REstAUrant:

Commander’s Palace

Personal Motto:

“Love the text. She’ll love you back.”

Playlists on my iPOD:

1.Guitar: Adrian Legg, Michael Hedges, Al DiMeola, Lee Ritenour, Earl Klugh, Leo Kottke, Chet Atkins, David Russell, John Williams
2.Classical: Beethoven, Bach, Holst, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Quartetto Gelato, Kathleen Battle, John Bayless
3.Pop: Old Rock Bands, mostly Beatles (of course), Windham Hill, James Newton Howard, New Age, TonicSolFa, Aaron Neville, Sarah Brightman, Andrew Lloyd Weber
4.Religious: Acapella, Andrus Blackwood, Dallas Holm, Glad, Imperials, Lamb, Pat Terry, PFR, Regeneration, Silverwind, Take 6, Praise & Worship Collections

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