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Michael has a BS in Education from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Divinity and PH.D. in Theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In a 25-year teaching career he has taught Middle School Industrial Arts, High School Biblical Studies and Apologetics, bachelor’s level theology for Simmons College of Kentucky, and graduate level Theology and Philosophy as an adjunct professor for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Diploma Series Study Guide: Systematic Theology, with Daniel L. Akin (1998), A Theological Analysis and Critique of the Postmodernism Debate: Mapping the Labyrinth (Edwin Mellen Press, 1997), and “Abusing Wittgenstein: The Misuse of the Concept of Language Games in Contemporary Theology,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, no. 39 (December 1996).
Michael was ordained to the vocational diaconate in 2023. At Grace Anglican Michael serves mainly as a Bible teacher, though spends time in the ordinary diaconal role of connecting the parish to the world at large. His strongest desire is “to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up … and become mature” (Eph. 4:12-13).
Michael has been married to his amazing wife Roberta for forty-three wonderful years. They have a daughter Elizabeth, a son-in-law Ronald, and four beautiful grandchildren, Trey, Elsie, Lilyana, and Adelaide.
Michael has no free time, but if he did, he would complete the half-finished wooden sailboat that he began building in his garage many years ago.
