A Short Autobiography

My wife Mo and I were both raised as Roman Catholics and grew up in Long Island, New York. In our teenage years our families moved to Connecticut, and in the Lord’s perfect timing, we met and married in 1966. I entered a career in advertising as a copywriter, and Mo became a full-time mom with our four children: Tara, Chris, Brendan and Todd.

         From a worldly point of view, we were climbing the American ladder of success quite nicely. But then, in 1973, Jesus interrupted our comfortable lives and showed us how shallow it all was compared to knowing Him. The story of how God shocked me into realizing I didn’t know Him, but only knew about Him; how we both had a dramatic encounter with Him on a Marriage Encounter weekend; how He led us to leave all our worldly success and follow Him; and how He eventually brought us totally out of institutional Christianity, is told in our book, Valley of the Steeples.

In addition to showing us what the church is and is not, God slowly awakened us to the “Hebraic roots” of our faith. I became involved with organizations that blessed the Jews and Israel and fought against anti-Semitism. During these years I wrote many of the articles found on this web site.

Today we both work in real estate and live in southeastern Pennsylvania. Our four children, their spouses and our seven precious grandchildren live close by.