“My name is Dr. P. and I teach church history; I hope you won’t find that this is a mystery.  .  .”  I often begin a new class with a short rap, although my music skills are zilch.  As you navigate around my web page, you will discover my interests, passions, and commitments.  I am surely no talent threat to Master P!

    I love the Lord, my family (see pictures), Union University, and Englewood Baptist Church (www.ebcjackson.org).  I have been teaching full-time since 1977 and have had administrative responsibilities almost that long.  I am a “Jersey boy” by background and completed two of my degrees in the Garden State (I played my college ball at Rutgers, as you can tell from the sketch—go Scarlet Knights!).  My roots also explain my love for Philly sports teams—go Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, and Sixers!  I enjoy reading and I jog regularly to stay in shape.   

    My book on 19^th-century Union trustee and Landmark patriarch J. R. Graves has been released by Broadman & Holman.  Other projected publications include a chapter on Landmarkism for a book on Baptist historiography (University of Alabama Press, summer 2012), and a chapter dealing with a Christian view of history for a handbook of Christian higher education that Dr. Dockery is editing (B & H,  spring of 2012).  Additional essays that I wrote are forthcoming in a collection of papers from UU's KJV conference (Borderstone, 2012), and in a multi-authored volume on the church (B & H, 2013?).

    My wife and I love to travel, as you can tell from my pictures.  For more pix, go to www.facebook.com, log in, and request to be a friend so you can access the photos at my profile page.  Blessings!