Married to beautiful Anjuli. Father of strong Manoah and gentle Samuel. Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Care here at Mission Hills Church. Graduate of Talbot School of Theology and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Born in Bend, OR but consider Escondido, CA my hometown. Fan of the swinging (but often striking out) Friars, for non-baseball fans that is the San Diego Padres. Also a fan of music, books, coffee, the ocean (particularly the Pacific), LOST, Tolkien, cheese, cooking, my wife’s photography, good poetry, grass, the smell of surf wax, and something else. Otherwise I live a relatively uninteresting life: but it is good, true, and beautiful. As Ralph Waldo Emerson so succinctly said, “At some point everyone realizes that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that like it or not, we are who we are; that despite the infinite abundance in the universe, nothing good can come to us except by working that little plot of land that we are given to farm.”