I am — let me take a deep breath — the Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University. I’ve been at Baylor for eleven years and before that taught for three decades at Wheaton College in Illinois. I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. I’ve been married for forty-four years and have a grown-up son. I am an Anglican Christian.
This blog has a mission statement. A kind of summary of its major themes may be found here. This post, ignored by everyone, says more about my basic orientation to my task as a thinker and writer than any other, probably. Also, I’ve reposted on this site some essays of mine originally published elsewhere. And the blog’s tagline comes from this poem.
More information about my work, with many useful and entertaining links, may be found on my home page.
