I am a former Marine and one-time evolutionary biologist and agnostic who was called by the grace of God to become a Christian and preaching minister. I have served churches in Oklahoma, New Jersey, and I currently serve as a preaching minister in Plymouth, Michigan. My interests are in Systematic Theology, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church History, Christian Apologetics, and Creation Science.
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The Dowlings: Matthew, Rachel, Gabriel, Gideon, Trinity, and Abram |
Saul Bellow, in the foreword to Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, wrote: “Tell me where you come from and I’ll tell you what you are.” OK, then. I am from a great variety of places and am many things—a husband, father, student, researcher, scholar, a former Marine, an Oklahoman—and above all else—simply Christian. The variety of my background experiences have tended to help me “become all things to all men."
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With a couple of my "friends" in Panama on Barro Colorado Island, where I was working as an ant biologist in the summer of 2005. |
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With an Azteca ant nest |