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Pat Butcher: The Perfect Distance - Ovett and Coe: The Record-Breaking Rivalry
Dean Karnazes: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Neal Bascomb: The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
John Brant: Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon
Ronald J. Sider: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
Roland Allen: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Kinder It
Philip Yancey: Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
Miroslav Volf: Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Lauren F. Winner: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life
Eugene H. Peterson: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
Erwin Raphael McManus: An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind
Brennan Manning: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Scot McKnight: The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
Kent Greenfield: The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
N. T. Wright: Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
Laura Hillenbrand: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Martin Lindstrom: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
I was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to the United States in 1992.
I am a 1991 graduate of the University of Ulster with a B.Sc (hons) in Sociology. Following my undergraduate work I began my seminary training at Union Theological College in Belfast but put that on hold on June of 1992 to move to Minnesota to work for two years in youth ministry.
Rather than return to Belfast in 1994 I decided to complete my seminary education at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN where I graduated with my M.Div in 1997.
For the next three years I worked at US West selling both residential and business phone services. In 2000 I was called to serve as pastor of Randolph Heights Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, MN. I served this congregation for four years before receiving a call to serve as the Associate Pastor of Centreville Presbyterian in VA.
While at Randolph Heights I began my D.Min at Bethel Seminary but put this on hold following my move to VA. I look forward to getting back into this program sometime in the future.
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