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After a very successful career in Software Development and IT management in the nonprofit/fundraising, medical services and telecommunications industries, I finally responded to the call I’d been avoiding for a quarter of a century and returned to the life of a student, graduating with a Masters of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in May of 2013.
For three years I was the Minister for a wonderful congregation in Dalton, MA. Sadly, ARK Church closed its doors a few years after I left.
While I still preach and minister, my primary role is serving as the Streaming Worship Producer at Memorial Congregational Church (UCC) in Sudbury, MA; as well as actively supporting various causes and ministries in many different ways and settings.
Faith, as evidenced and enacted through Politics, Philosophy and History are the focus of this blog.
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