I’m pastor of the North Houston and Spring Creek Seventh-day Adventist churches in Texas, and a chaplain in the Texas Army National Guard.
I grew up Adventist, but wandered away in college. I graduated from Atlantic Union College in 1984, and did a year of graduate work in church history at Loma Linda University (LaSierra campus), and then received my M.A. in church history (1986) and M.Div. (1989) from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. I also have a D.Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation in ecumenism.
I served as a Lutheran (ELCA) pastor and was endorsed by the ELCA as a chaplain candidate in the Army Reserve and then as a chaplain in the Vermont National Guard. I entered the Catholic church in 1992, served as a parish director of religious education in Watertown, NY, a lay campus minister at UCSB, and then for nine years as Director of Young Adult and Campus Ministry for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. In 2007 I returned to my Adventist roots.
My interests (reflected on this blog) include church history, interfaith relations, and campus ministry. Published writings include “Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy and the Internet,” in J. Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum, editors, After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences (AltaMira, 2004).
–Bill Cork
