During my teen years, I discovered a passion for truth in my heart and also discovered I was a political conservative... (more)

During my teen years, I discovered a passion for truth in my heart and also discovered I was a political conservative. During my college years I joined the debate team, got active in politics and discovered that I enjoy a philosophical approach to learning. I was deeply convinced that truth exists and can be found by those who mean to have it. I devoted myself to the search for truth and stuck with that devotion for the rest of my life.

At some point, I realized that to find truth one must go to the fountainhead of truth, namely God. I sought God during my last two years in college culminating in a traumatic and supernatural moment when I met Christ at the cross. From that moment to this, I have never doubted my eternal salvation.

Within four years, I was surprised to find myself preaching sermons from the pulpit and teaching bible studies. That began a lifelong interest in theology and Christian spirituality. I have written a book titled, The Stages of Sanctification.

However, I gradually discovered that I was meant to be more of a philosopher, historian, psychologist, a student of classical literature, a science buff, and a political writer than a pastor. I am a classic autodidact (self-taught) and polymath (student of many subjects). In keeping with my Myers-Briggs temperament of INTP, I have been chasing after intellectual excitement for most of my life. Several years ago, I was designated as a "Christian Intellectual" by a program of the Department of Philosophy of Talbot University.

In the seventies, I had a strong interest in American history and gave many talks on the subject during the seventies and eighties. In the eighties, I developed a theory of history and undertook a serious long term study of European history. At present I am writing two new books: The Rise and Fall of Western Culture, and A Brief History of Conservatism. The bulk of my writing is in essay form and I have written perhaps 500 essays in the last fifteen years.

My chief claim to fame is as an essay writer for a politically conservative and Christian web site which gets 1,000,000 hits a month. Beginning in the summer of 2006, my writings began to open opportunities as a political advisor, writer and operative at the local, state and federal level. Those involvements became progressively more intense during the year which followed.

I am a CPA and MBA and I worked as a technical expert in governmental auditing and accounting in order to pay the bills. I am now retired from conventional employment and have the luxury of pursuing writing, politics and the intellectual and spiritual treasures which are the joy of my heart.