About Me

I’m associate pastor of the Houston International Seventh-day Adventist Church in Houston, Texas. I grew up in New Haven, CT, Terre Haute, IN, and Rockford, IL, attending a mix of public and Adventist schools (including Broadview Academy for a year). I graduated from Atlantic Union College in 1984, and then did a year of graduate work in church history at Loma Linda University (LaSierra campus). I received my M.A. (1986) and M.Div. (1989) from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. I also have a D.Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

I left the Adventist church while in college and spent over two decades away before returning in the spring of 2007. After graduation from Gettysburg Seminary I served as a Lutheran (ELCA) pastor and Army Reserve chaplain; after entering the Catholic church in 1992, I 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.

Joy and I have been married for 25 years and have two teenagers.

My interests include history (especially church history), interfaith relations (especially Christian/Jewish), and campus ministry. My M.A. thesis was “Race, Transcendental and the American Dream: The Abolitionist Ideology of Theodore Parker.” 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). I have taught Introduction to World Religions at Alvin Community College and serve on the advisory board of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University.

I’ve been blogging since June 2002, and this blog reflects all of these interests. It will give you an idea of the webpages I have read, and some of the things I’m thinking about and preaching about.

–Bill Cork