- Department: Management
- University: University of Tampa
- Location: Tampa, Florida
I attended a Catholic grade school and high school (freshmen year) and was raised as a Catholic, yet I fell away from the church in the 1990s. For a long time after that, I searched for the truth and examined eastern religions and other belief systems. After getting married and having two sons, I began searching for the truth more diligently. A chance encounter with a pastor on a plane led me to discover Isaiah 53, which I was shocked to find in the OLD Testament, and CS Lewis' books "Mere Christianity," "Screwtape Letters," and the "Great Divorce." The "scales from my eyes" fell off after reading CS Lewis' trilemma and I realized that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. My goal is to share the truth with anyone who asks and to try to be more like Jesus in everything I do.
Favorite Quote
“I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Friends describe me
Positive, optimistic, extravert
My hobbies
Biking, walking my dog, reading, studying, and snow skiing
Fantasy dinner guests
Thomas Sowell
Best advice I ever received
"Never say you have to go to work. You get to go to work." - My dad
My undergrad alma mater
Florida State University
My worst subject in school
Microeconomics
In college I drove
VW Cabriolet Convertible
If I weren't a professor, I would
Run a business that involves real estate
Favorite books
The Bible (ESV-CE); CS Lewis' Mere Christianity; Harrison and Huntington's "Culture Matters; Frances Fuyukama's "Political Order and Political Decay;" Brant Pitre's "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary;" William Lane Craig's "Reasonable Faith." Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged:"
Favorite movies
Wedding Crashers; Sound of Music; Caddyshack; It's a Wonderful Life
Favorite city
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Favorite coffee
Anything with French vanilla
My latest accomplishment
I recently received the "Louise Loy Hunter" award at my university as an "outstanding faculty," so I delivered the December 2023 commencement speech.
Current Research
I have active research in coaching students as I oversee our graduate coaching program where we pair professional coaches and community leaders with students.