About Me

I grew up on a dead-end dirt road in a little hamlet called Sleeper, Mo. I attended the University of Missouri and graduated with a Bachelor in Journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Upon graduation, I moved to Paducah, Ky., to take a sports writing job at the local newspaper. After six adventure-filled years covering college athletics, high school sports and dirt track auto racing, I felt God’s renewed call to ministry and took a position as the youth director at New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the church which I’d been a member of since 2007. I also started working part time at the McCracken County Public Library. During all this time, I fell in love, got married, and got divorced. I believe in God’s abundant grace (hallelujah!), mercy, and above all, unconditional love.

I finished a grueling Master of Divinity degree at Memphis Theological Seminary in December 2019, commuting each week for four years from Paducah to Memphis and back. In January 2020, I was ordained as a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and installed as the associate minister at New Hope.

I’m passionate about all things Star Wars. I enjoy riding my bike, attending to my two cats, and thrift shopping. I also love to nap.