The author is a Christian minister and a retired high school and college English teacher. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees and has done extensive post-graduate work as visiting scholar in the Summer Programme in Theology at Oxford University and in ecumenical studies at Centro Pro Unione in Rome as well as the Kirkpatrick Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and other programs. He grew up in the Texas Panhandle town of Sunray, has travelled extensively, and now lives with his wife of over fifty years in Houston. They have two married children and six grandchildren
