Professional
1971-        Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, currently in doctoral teaching only.

1958-1973: Executive Editor, Curriculum Publications 32 quarterly, monthly, and weekly publications
Free Methodist Publishing House

1954-1958 Pastor, Rockwall Texas Free Methodist Church

1952-1954 Music ministry singing with The King’s Men male quartet while studying for pastoral ministry at Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky

1949-1952 Pastor, Cave Community Free Methodist Church in rural Gray County Kansas. Simultaneously public school music teacher, director of choral music, and elementary school basketball coach, Minneola Kansas, public schools

EDUCATION
Ph. D. Indiana University, 1969, Bloomington, Indiana. Major in curriculum development, minors in educational psychology and English linguistics. Dissertation: Value-Oriented Instruction in the Church and in the Home.

M. A. Southern Methodist University, 1960, Dallas Texas. Major, counseling and guidance.  Research Thesis: Opinions, Attitudes and Experiences of High School Students in the Free Methodist Church.

B.D. Asbury Theological Seminary, 1954, Wilmore, KY.

B.A. Greenville College, 1949, Greenville, IL;

A. A. Central College, 1947, McPherson, KS

PROFESSIONAL AND EXTERNAL LEADERSHIP

Chair: Family Summit, convened in behalf of the Board of Bishops, Free Methodist Church of North America, at the World Ministry Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, originally scheduled for September 18-19, 2001, postponed because of September 11 crisis, to October 15-16.

Elected "Teacher of the Year" by the National Association of Professors of Christian Education, 1999.

 

Member, and occasional vice chair, Board of Trustees, Greenville, College, 1969-1996

Resource person, Pentagon and Capitol Hill special events focused on men’s and women’s issues and sexuality, hosted by The Christian Embassy, March 1-5, 1993 and May 12-15, 1994

Consultant, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Title XX, Washington, DC, 1986

Guest of Dr. James Dobson, Focus on the Family radio show, 8 tapings since 1980, including a “top ten” most requested tape: Innate Differences Between Males and Females

President, Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, 1983-84 Address: "Toward a Symbolic Revival: Creation Revisited," October 26, 1984, published in Religious Education, Vol. 80, No.3, Summer, 1985. Revised and reprinted, Asbury Seminarian, Vol. 40, No. 2, Winter, 1985.

Presenter, 200th Anniversary Consultation on the Future of Methodist Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, August, 1984. Papers published.

Delegate, World Methodist Council's Seventh Oxford Institute on Methodist Theology, section on Wesleyan Spirituality, Sanctification, and Faith Development, July 26--August 5, 1982. James Fowler, chair. Moral Development Foundations: Judeo-Christian Alternatives to Piaget-Kohlberg, Abingdon, 1983, is dedicated to that working group.

 

Director, The Kentucky Humanities Council, 1978-1982

 

Consultant, Eli Lily Endowment, occasional contracts to evaluate grant requests

 

Consultant, Chief of Chaplains, USAFE Command assignment, 1968-69

MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education

Religious Education Association

Wesleyan Theological Society

Phi Delta Kappa--Alpha Chapter, Bloomington, Indiana