My wife Kassie and I went to Italy in October, 2006. This is us in front of St. Peter's in Rome.

I am a 1993 graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA (Bachelor of Music), and a 1997 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN (Master of Divinity). In 2005 I completed the Master of Sacred Theology degree at CTSFW; click here to read my thesis on Original Sin in Eastern Orthodoxy.

I was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry in 1998. I served as the Pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church, DuQuoin, Illinois, until 2001, when I was called to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Alexandria, Virginia.