CURRICULUM VITAE

Born: Colorado Springs, CO, 7/8/35

Married: 7/8/66 to the former Sonia A. Shine of Lexington, KY

Children: Bradley Earle, born 7/30/67

Benjamin Chadwick, born 2/8/69

Rebecca Shine, born 9/5/72

Ecclesiastical relationship - Ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, 1962

    Freshman year: first place in mathematics final exam;
        first place in history final exam

    Holland Scholarship for first place in class standing -
        freshman and sophomore years

    Phi Beta Kappa

    Pi Gamma Mu

    Salutatorian

General Theological Seminary, New York City, M. Div., 1960

    Senior Thesis on Freudian challenge to religion -  "Freud & Religion: a Psycho-Historical Reality Check" 

Clinical Pastoral Training, four 3-month in-residence courses

    Cleveland State Mental Hospital, summer 1958

    Riker's Island City Prison, New York City, summer 1959

    University General Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, summer 1960

    Philadelphia State Mental Hospital, fall 1960

Oxford University, D. Phil. in theology, 1964

    Thesis, "Personality, Empiricism, and God", on the theological foundations of natural science.

Chaplain (part time), Oriel College, Oxford, England - 1962-64.

Assistant (part time), St. Margaret's Church, Oxford, England - 1961-64.

Assistant (full time), St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Burbank, CA - 1965-67.

Priest-in-Charge, St. Vincent's Episcopal Church, Diamond Bar, CA - Feb-July, 1968

Trinity College: 1968-69, Lecturer in Religion. 1969-71, Assistant Professor

Courses taught:

    Religion and Social Change - relating the Biblical doctrine of creation and
        purpose for existence to issues of social change.

    Evolution of Western Religious Thought I - Renaissance and Reformation.

    Evolution of Western Religious Thought II - Modern era.

    Existentialism - Exploring the meaning of 'meaning' - confronting the Biblical
        world view with various existentialist authors.

    Authority - Freshman Seminar

    Religious Myth and Symbol - concentrating on primitive mythology and
        the "mother" archetype vis-a-vis Old Testament mythology.

    Psychology and Religion - building a theory of the "unconscious" and of
        religious experience from the writings of Freud, Adler, Jung, and others.

    Science and Religion - the theological roots of empirical science.

    The Father Archetype in Religion - Senior Seminar

Ecumenical School of Theology - Hartford, CT 1971-73.

    Founder and director - an evening school for college level courses in religion.
        Space donated by the Hartford Seminary Foundation.

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, East Haddam, CT - Pastor, 1971-81

Developed workshops and courses on a Biblical understanding of human nature and emotional healing which led to the publication of Biblical Inner Healing.

Becket Academy, East Haddam, CT

    Part-time chaplain and counselor - 1973-80

    Full time chaplain and counselor - 1981-83

    Becket Academy was a coed school for troubled youth from junior through senior high school. The school specialized in wilderness programs of the "outward bound" type with a fairly firm discipline, but no clear religious identity.

Emmaus Ministries - Founder and president - (1983 to present) a non-profit organization dedicated to the healing of the Church through "spiritually and intellectually aggressive materials for living in a pre-Christian age".

    Private counseling practice in Norwalk, CT (1984-90) in individual counseling, workshops, and conferences in emotional and spiritual healing. Writing in the area of developing a Biblically based psychology and therapy, and in Christian apologetics.

    Private practice in Ambridge, PA (1991- )

    Systems Operator of Road to Emmaus electronic bulletin board dedicated to Christian apologetics, and internet access service for Ambridge Area.
The electronic bulletin board became a website as the technology developed. 

    Emmaus Ministries became The Road to Emmaus when it was reincorporated in California in 2007, taking the name of the website.  

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Blairsville, PA - part time Vicar, 1997 - 98.

Transformation Christian Ministries, Washington, DC, metro area -- executive director -- an Exodus affiliate ministry helping people exit the homosexual lifestyle - 1999 - 2001  (resided in Alexandria, VA)

        Returned to Emmaus Ministries in June of 2001.

Public speaking
Several hundred sermons at my own and other churches;

Lectures and workshops on inner healing, sexuality issues, and Christian apologetics included: 
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Darien, CT;  St. Nicholas Church, Midland, TX;  Human Sexuality conference on the Island of Bermuda;  St. John's Episcopal Church, Moultrie, GA;  Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Nashotah, WI;  Christian Community of Family Ministry, Vista, CA;  Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH;  St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Livonia, MI;  a day with entering students on the subject, "Jesus, the Politician" at Biola University, La Mirada, CA;  workshop at "Intelligent Design" conference at Biola University;

        TV interview in Pittsburgh on homosexuality from Biblical perspective;

        Exodus International and P-FOX conferences on homosexuality from 1989 to 2003.

Defining 'Oughtness' and 'Love', JOURNAL OF RELIGION, July 1959.
    (Written originally for an undergraduate religion course at Trinity College.)

Seminary Teaching, THE WITNESS, Nov. 19 & 26, 1959. (On nature of historical
    evidence in Bible, written at General Seminary).

Biblical Theology and Pelagianism, JOURNAL OF RELIGION, July 1961.

The Way of the Cross Among Nations, THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY, Apr. 18, 1962.

The Way of the Cross, THE LIVING CHURCH, Feb. 10, 1963.

Is Love an Adequate Guide?, LEARNING FOR LIVING, March 1964.

Reality and Faith, THE LIVING CHURCH, Aug. 10, 1980.

The Spiritual Core of Experiential Education, JOURNAL OF EXPERIENTIAL
    EDUCATION, Spring-summer 1983.

Gender, Sex, and Priesthood, THE SEABURY JOURNAL, May 1986.

Dungeons and Dragons, JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN HEALING, Fall 1986.

The 'Safe Sex' Betrayal, THE LIVING CHURCH, Dec. 4, 1988.

AIDS and Truth, Emmaus Ministries, 1989

Sexuality and Spiritual Warfare, ON TARGET, March 1989.

Two Kinds of Personhood, PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND THE CHRISTIAN
    FAITH, spring, 1993 (on the abortion debate), Emmaus Ministries. 

Scripture or SIECUS? - Emmaus Ministries, 1994 (is the SIECUS program Christian?)

BIBLICAL INNER HEALING, Emmaus Ministries, 1988.

BIBLICAL SEXUALITY AND THE BATTLE FOR SCIENCE, Emmaus Ministries, 1988.

REASON, REVELATION, AND POLITICS Emmaus Ministries, 1993

RELIGION AND FREUD: A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL REALITY CHECK,
    Emmaus Ministries, 1997.

A Theological Background for Emile Cammaerts' "Notes on Art and Religion"
    Emmaus Ministries, 1993

DIALOGUE IN DARKNESS or SCIENTIFIC DEBATE? Emmaus Ministries, 1993

HUMAN SEXUALITY: HETERO-, HOMO-, OR PAN-?, Emmaus Ministries, 1988

SEX EDUCATION: TWO OPPOSING PHILOSOPHIES, Emmaus Ministries, 1990

THE CHURCH AND SEXUALITY, Emmaus Ministries, 1989.

THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE IN A SCIENTIFIC WORLD,
    Emmaus Ministries, 1990

THE FACTS, THE FALL, AND THE WALL, Emmaus Ministries, 1990

Inner Healing and a Biblical Psychology - a series of over 70 audio cassettes and albums. Emmaus Ministries, 1983-1998

YAHWEH OR THE GREAT MOTHER? - two video cassettes comparing the Biblical
    vs. the secular/pagan worldviews. Emmaus Ministries, 1989.

MAN AND WOMAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD - the foundations of sex and gender
    from the Biblical perspective. Emmaus Ministries, 1989.

HEALING THE INNER HURTS - a weekend conference on a Christian understanding
    of emotional healing. Emmaus Ministries, 1989.

HUMAN SEXUALITY: THE SECULAR DEBACLE - building on the worldview contrasts,
    showing the massive failure of the secular view of human sexuality.
    Emmaus Ministries, 1990

THE SACRAMENT OF SELFHOOD - the freedom, complexity, and radical dependency
    of the human soul as it reflects the image of God. Emmaus Ministries, 1989.

The Hour After "The Day After"

PERSONALITY, EMPIRICISM, AND GOD (D. Phil. thesis)

YAHWEH OR THE GREAT MOTHER?

THE ONTOLOGY OF AUTHORITY 

A THEOLOGY OF SANTA CLAUS 

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