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Biographical InformationMy
wife, Mary, and I are both natives
of Norfolk, Virginia, and we have three children - David, Laura and
Stephen. I was educated at
the University of Virginia, earning a B.A. in history in 1967; and at the
Lexington Theological Seminary, in Lexington, Kentucky, obtaining the Master of Divinity degree with an
emphasis in New Testament in 1970. We have lived in Kentucky since coming to
seminary in 1967. I have served pastorates at the First Christian Church in
Harlan, Kentucky; the First Christian Church in Owingsville, Kentucky; the
First Christian Church in Burkesville, Kentucky; and am
currently pastoring I had never heard of C.S. Lewis until I went to college; and, as a college student having to deal with questions about my faith, a friend suggested that I read Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. I really was impressed by the clarity and logic of the one and the humor and insight of the other. I soon began to read other Lewis books, especially his books that related to Christianity. I did not know for some time that he had died in the same year and on the same day as President Kennedy, which also was my first year at college. It was in 1969, while still in seminary, that I first heard portions of the Chronicles of Narnia read in a Christian coffeehouse. The wonder, the joy, the adventure, the awe-filled experience with Aslan, all gave new vision to me of what the Christian life could really be like in our world. So significant was this fresh spiritual experience with the Chronicles of Narnia that three years later, we named our first son, David Edmund, after Edmund, the child in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for whom the real lion king, Aslan, had died. About 1975 further interest in Lewis led me to correspond with a literary society in New York which met monthly and read their own papers on C.S. Lewis to one another and then published them in a newsletter to anyone who wanted to join them. Named The New York C.S. Lewis Society, my association with them opened my horizon to C.S. Lewis's other more literary works. One thing led to another, and over the last 29 years I have collected a copy of and read almost all of the available articles and books that have been written by or about C.S. Lewis and his friends from about the 1930's up until today. A
contributor to the recently published, The C.S.
Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia, I have been involved in various C.S. Lewis
studies, workshops and conferences In November of 1999, I attended the Taylor University "C.S. Lewis and Friends" conference and presented the paper, "Lewis in the Dock: A Brief Review of the Secular Print Media's Judgment of the C.S. Lewis Centenary," also leading a pre-session on the life and work of C.S. Lewis. This paper was also published in the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society's Lamp-Post magazine.
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