I was born in New York City, grew up in its suburbs (Chappaqua/Mt. Kisco, NY), attended Trinity College in Hartford and The Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  I was married in 1967 and my former wife and I had the honor and privilege of raising two great kids: Megan and Joshua. In May of this year I was married to the Rev. Pat Stelz, also an Episcopal priest.

After two years of seminary, I left to work for a number of years in Boston’s inner city portion of what was then called the “Great Society’s War on Poverty”. In 1972 I was called to serve as Minister to Youth and Community at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I was ordained a deacon and priest. In December of 1976 I hired on as the Associate Rector of Christ Church, Dearborn, Michigan.  I spent five years there learning how to do parish ministry, focusing much of my energy in church school, youth work and outreach.

From there I went to be the Rector at All Saints Church, East Lansing, Michigan, where I remained for almost thirteen years. In 1994 I returned to Massachusetts as Rector of Saint Paul’s, Dedham, a parish which had been troubled for generations.   Having led the parish for some ten years and through various changes and stages of development, I began to sense that what I could offer as rector at St. Paul’s had been given and that God was calling me to new work, which led me to do interim work at Holy Trinity, West Chester, Pennsylvania.  God powerfully called us forward enabling new vision and healing.  After three years, the parish was ready to call a new rector, and together they have continued the healing and growth into greater vitality and spiritual strength.  Since then, I have been the priest-in-charge at Trinity Memorial Church in Philadelphia.