San Diego - it’s difficult to imagine a better place to grow up. The Pacific Ocean was a perfect playground. Diving. Surfing. Sun. Majestic mountains invited adventure. Hiking. Riding. Guns. As a kid, I experienced some of the best America had to offer, and Golden State activities color his writing. It seems strange, therefore, with so many pleasant diversions, that I gravitated towards America’s spiritual and political decline as a lifelong interest.
But, wherever I went, the nexus seemed to follow me. When he was a Navy pilot, colleagues equated communism and democracy to a Darwinian struggle for survival, as though principles like liberty, faith, and charity had nothing to do with our cause. As a labor representative, sophisticated New York attorneys assured me that corporate America was evil. And, as a community planner, I witnessed firsthand how developers are treated by government bureaucrats.
Over the decades, I came to believe that America was failing. But it wasn’t because of taxes, or health care, or guns. America was failing because we were losing our Christian heritage and our Constitutional principles.
Coming in 2013:
The Darwinist Religion - A Christian Discussion on Faith and Theory
American Essays
Interesting factoids:
- I love California’s oak trees, gray chaparral, blue water, and Spanish architecture.
- Don’t know how it happened, but even though I grew up surfing, diving, and hiking, somehow I got hooked on Darwinian religion.
- I believe America’s Constitution, laws, prosperity, freedom, and success were connected to our Christian heritage, and that America’s decline is directly connected to our spiritual decline.
- I’m still an active pilot and I fly Boeing 777 airplanes around the world.
- My wife, Suzy, is true blue, and our three kids are the love of our lives.