I retired, at the end of July 2017, after 6-1/2 years as executive director of Texas Baptists Committed. At the same time, the TBC Board – with my full concurrence – voted to bring the 30-year ministry of Texas Baptists Committed to an end. Before becoming executive director in January 2011, I served on the TBC Board for 5 years.
From 2008-2020, I served on the Board of Trustees of the T. B. Maston Foundation for Christian Ethics, which I chaired from 2012-2016.
As of 2022, I continue to serve on the Board of Trustees of Pastors for Texas Children, on which I’ve served since its founding in 2013.
Before taking a ministry position leading Texas Baptists Committed, I spent a 20-year career in the corporate world as a technical writer and editor.
My wife, Joanna, and I have been blessed with two wonderful children, a great son-in-law, and the four sweetest grandchildren in the world. Joanna passed away in February 2021, after a long struggle with kidney disease. We were married for 44-1/2 years. Joanna will always be the love of my life, and I look forward with great anticipation to seeing her again when the Lord calls me home. I miss her with every breath I take.
As for my writing “chops”: I’ve written numerous posts, over the years, for both Texas Baptists Committed and T. B. Maston Foundation blogs. I’ve also been published in Christian Ethics Today. (And, in the secular media, I was published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine in 1989.) From 2011-2021, I served as founding editor and publisher of Weekly Baptist Roundup, an e-newsletter that was read by Baptists throughout the U.S. and even a few in Europe.
In addition, a political novel sits unfinished on my computer, over 20 years (1999, to be precise) after I wrote around 45,000 words on it while I was “between jobs.” Now that I’m retired, finishing that novel is among my many writing goals.