This is my personal site, and everything in it reflects my own personal views.
I'm an Aggie journalist from Waco, living in College Station, Texas. I have the privilege of building the technology behind impactful social science research — the large-scale data systems, survey platforms, and custom tools that researchers rely on, often running for years and handling data at significant scale. The research it supports goes on to help my fellow citizens in real ways, from clearer warning communication to policies aimed at a better life for everyone. I love the part of the work where a hard technical problem meets a real human need.
When I'm not working or spending time with family, I'm usually exploring somewhere, pulling people together for a get-together, deep in Biblical research, reading, or working on something creative—songwriting and photography especially. Isn't it amazing just to be alive?
I have a Master of Arts in Theological Studies (Biblical languages track) from Houston Christian University. I am a graduate of both Texas A&M University (B.S. in journalism) and Heritage Christian University (B.A. in Biblical studies).
My amazing wife, Paula, and I have four children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and one grandchild. We have been truly blessed through each of them.
Above everything, I cherish the Christian faith in which my hope rests.
It gives added meaning to, and amplifies (in my own skin; John 7:17, 13:17) everything else I've already written. I realize that might seem incomprehensible to some people. In fact, to an individual holding perfectly to a rational materialist perspective, it might look just the opposite. The Apostle Paul admitted as much—that this would be true if not for the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:19,20).
Paul goes as far as to say that if there is no resurrection, then Christians are the most pitiable of all people. That's the sort of Christianity I want — not some grasping, greedy, judging, mocking, self-centered, self-righteous version.
The reason – and I believe a completely rational one based on fact – that I am a Christian is the historical resurrection of the crucified man, Jesus of Nazareth. That, together with the good works which He performed in the presence of many witnesses, attest that He truly is the Son of God (both fully God and fully man; Deity Incarnate; the Word of God made flesh).
