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Originally Posted June, 2009:

A little about me:

I am a Vietnam veteran, formerly a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus (Tertian), and am an ordained minister (Southern Baptist), who later joined the PCA. I bi-vocationally pastored a new Reformed church in Clearwater, FL for a few years and then spent many years as a wireless communications technology engineer in my own company and R&D lab director at companies such as GTE, Alcatel, Motorola, Intel Corp., and General Dynamics. To this day I still maintain a wireless communications intellectual property consulting business that specializes in forensic patent analysis (related to purchases, licensing, or litigation of intellectual property.

I have an undergrad and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering, masters degrees, one in adult education and another in divinity, and an additional, pre-doctoral, Licentiate in Sacred Theology certificate (STL, 2 yrs beyond my MDiv which was required for my Catholic seminary teaching). After seven years of study, contemplation, examination of Jansensism, and seminary teaching, I left the Jesuits. Soon afterwards I fully adopted the Reformed doctrines of grace and the system of doctrine summarized by the Westminster Confession of Faith.

While in academia I managed academic departments and taught grad/undergrad electrical engineering and computer science courses at Southern Illinois University, DePaul University, and Augusta Technical College.

In theology, for over 35+ years, I am Reformed (which includes Calvinistic), creationist, infallibilist, cessationist, classical Christian theist, and amillennial. On the sacraments, I take them to be symbolic. I regard other issues in sacramentology as secondary to this primary position. I believe in the primacy of divine revelation in Scripture. In ethics, I subscribe to traditional Christian morality, rooted God's revealed law as the source and standard of personal and social ethics. I also hold to a infralapsarian theodicy. I subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith as a member of the conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).

In 1994 I founded of the Ask Mr. Religion (AMR) confidential theology Q&A service. The all-volunteer member AMR service provides custom, fee-based, theology research for academic and private theologians as well as personal Biblical counseling. I also run The Reformed Theology Institute discussion site and am an Administrator at The Puritan Board.

I have been married for over thirty-five years to a woman who makes me want to be a better man every day. Valerie taught mathematics at a local community college here in Chandler, Arizona. I have a wonderful son, Kenneth, whom I and Valerie home-schooled from grades four to twelve. Kenneth later graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Computer Information Systems and is my database specialist for my patent consulting business.

I am a CF Chaplain and you can read many of my posts in the Ask a Chaplain forum.

My CF blog is located here.

By the way, Do You Confess? See here. ;)
 
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AMR

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and I dont blame you for the diversity. BSEE never did much for me either! :D
My engineering background still brings me an income with respect to intellectual property analysis. And the skills are invaluable as they are applied to Scripture study and exegesis.

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