“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”-Thomas JeffersonI am absolutely crazy in love with my wife, Christy. My Meyers-Briggs profile is INFJ. I like German beer like Beck’s, Bitburger, and Lutherbier. My favorite Old Testament prophet is Nahum, and as far as Biblical women go, you can’t do much better than Jael in Judges 4. I teach, sometimes well. My first novel, Litany of Secrets, comes out in November 2013.

“I promise that I will not exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”-Ronald Reagan, during 1984 debate with Walter Mondale”I’m an academic. My head tells me I will never understand God. [And my heart] tells me I’m not meant to. Faith is a gift I have yet to receive.” -Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, in “Angels and Demons”

“To truly pursue the living God, we have to see the need for questions…Questions aren’t scary. What is scary is when people don’t have them. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.” -Rob Bell

“I was born in Chicago. When I was ten, my parents moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.” -Emo Philips