Who I am

All though I try not to define my self, or anyone else, by what the do and equate it to who they are in my case the two really are one in the same.  I’m a “retired” Camp Minister and Eco-Theologian who spent the better part of 20 years in school and working in every part of camping ministry from fund raising to camp nurse to maintenance and washing dishes to the proverbial summer staff consoler.  I say “retired” because it sounds nicer than telling you that I worked myself into a state of depression and inability to be of any use to anyone after a career of trying to prevent others from doing just that.

                For now I am a stay at home dad focusing on making it up to my wife and kids. They followed me around the country literally from border to border and from coast to almost the other coast in our sixteen amazing years together. We have drug the four most reliant and amazing kids along on all of our “Adventures” around the country.  Besides Jen and I not really being up to it anymore these travels (content moving) is starting to both show and flower in them.  They have lived most of their life in places most people only dream of visiting and have been to some of the most beautiful parts of creation there are.  However, it's time to lay some roots. 

                What is Eco-Theology you ask?  Well in its most basic form and definition Eco-Theology is the intersection of theology (thinking about God) and ecology (the study of the environment and systems that make up that environment, or ecology) The scientist can tell you how to save the tree and where the tree fits into the ecosystem, I’ll explain to you how that tree fits into creation, God’s plan, and why we should save the tree.

                Although some Eco-Theologians get close to, or even cross the line into arguably no longer dining Christian theology (No I’m not going to name names) I try really hard to stay well within the boundaries of “Yahweh is who created it all and Christ is who is fixing, saving, recreating it all” or in other words Christian theology.  I love to discuss the different views, but I don’t like to argue and won’t.  I'm not scientist so I will probably make mistakes from time to time talking about the science part, but if you are going to critic it use facts, not something a think tank funded by corporate interest or what Rush said, and I'll try to do the same.

                Someday we may get back into ministry, but right now I am just focusing on healing my spirit and supporting Jen as she builds her career as an amazing high school math teacher and being “dad.”  If you would like some help with a "green" project or someone to come speak to your church or group about how the Church fits into the environmental movement and what you can do, let me know I still love to tell people the greatest story ever told.