This résumé is posted in response to questions readers have raised concerning my qualifications to write or manage my web sites. I provide a link to it from most of the pages on each of the several web sites which I administer.
My ultimate objective is to live increasingly as God's friend. I wish to place no limits upon the means God may choose to use to accomplish this. The growth of my wife and children in active friendship with Christ, and the growth of visible unity of the Body of Christ are also among my personal objectives. My present worldly occupation is as a litigation paralegal, and I have been stably employed in this field for more than sixteen years. I am not eager to leave my present employment, as my employers have been good to me. However, I am open to whatever future employment or mission the Lord may bring to me.
J.D., 1982, University of Iowa, with high distinction.
M.A., History, 1984, University of Iowa.
M.S., Biochemistry, 1982, Iowa State University (course work, research completed in 1980).
B.S., Chemistry & B.A, Linguistics, 1976, Wichita State University, Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Linguistics.
Link to my transcripts.
1991-present, paralegal, a three-attorney law firm in Topeka, Kansas. I do some of nearly everything that doesn't require admission to the Bar, from research in the scientific literature to legal research and writing to copying and filing. The firm focuses on complex civil litigation and has done mostly toxic tort, civil rights and labor cases during my tenure.
1994-1999: Licensed (1994), then ordained (1995) to ministry of the Gospel by Randel Ministries, Inc. Worked in 1994-1998 mostly in prison ministry and Christian writing. Pastored Topeka Faith Center, 1998-1999 (part-time, unpaid).
1989-1991: Chemist/Theoretician, Kanza, Inc. Participated in a team attempting to find commercializable cold nuclear fusion systems.
1988-1989: Chemist, Chemco Enterprises. Employed by a small local chemical wholesaler doing almost everything except the bookkeeping.
I co-authored Ian Johnson and Lauston Stephens, Our Oneness in Christ, (Baltimore: PublishAmerica 2006), ISBN 1424160359.
Owner and webmaster of the Christian-oneness.org family of web sites. I am also the author of most of the content of these sites, including an ongoing Systematic Theology text, an exposition entitled Common Divisive Fallacies dealing with logical fallacies and other erroneous forms of reasoning that are often exploited to perpetuate factions, and a site entitled "A conciliatory approach to the Pentecostal doctrine of tongues" as the "initial evidence" of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
I have never been admitted to the Bar in any jurisdiction.
During the many years I have operated this website, which has been on the 'Net since 1995. I have received several letters from people who noticed that I have no academic degrees in theology and no formal credentials from any denominational organization. Usually the writers who make this observation follow it with the judgment that I am "unqualified" to write what I have written. This is generally followed by a demand that I MUST remove my websites from public circulation forthwith and refrain from writing any more theology until I acquire formal credentials which comply with some credential requirement which the writer sets forth. I reject all such suggestions. I note that, of all the Apostles and New Testament writers, only Paul had formal theological training. Luke was a physician. All the others were "uneducated" men who had "been with Jesus." Acts 4:13. I have been with Jesus, and a serious student of His Word, since 1971, and I have the Holy Spirit, the true teacher, living within me. Thus, to the extent any human is really qualified to seek an understanding of God and His Word, I am qualified.
For more information on my academic credentials, consult my transcripts page.
For more information about this site, its finances, and its authors' relationship to it, see the site disclosures page.