I live in Hemet, CA with my wife Jolynne, our four children, my in-laws, her sister, and many animals.  Hemet is approximately 80 miles from the nearest Christian radicals and 2,022 miles from the nearest EP Gathering. For much of the last decade I was a footsoldier for global capitalism, a Zaccheus. That is, I was a top-producing mortgage loan consultant. For various reasons (many theological) I quit the mortgage business to complete my degree in biblical studies from Hope International University, manage my wife’s wedding photography business, help homeschool my kids, and write the occasional blog post about Jesus, politics and the arts.

About four years ago I was excommunicated from the non-denominational church that baptized me into Christ at age 12 and where I had served in ministry ever since. I can think of no better word than “grace” to describe how I avoided total cynicism regarding the body of Christ during my season of “ecclesial homelessness.” Two authors that were instrumental in that grace were Stanley Hauerwas and William Cavanaugh. That is how I discovered the Ekklesia Project. That is also how I “fell” into the liturgical tradition. My family communes at St. Alban’s Episcopal where I serve as a lector, a lay witness, and a member of the world’s tiniest church choir.