Hometown: Hawthorne, NJ

College & Graduate School: BA, Rutgers University; M.Div, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Favorite activity: laughing

Weirdest food ever eaten: fried crickets...a little salt, a little crunch, a whole lotta little body parts floating around your mouth

Why did you come to Messiah? For a bunch of articulate reasons: thought-full and engaged students, a common pursuit of Christ, a commitment to the ministry of compassion and reconciliation, a godly and dynamic group of people to work with

And for one inarticulate reason: a profound sense that this is *exactly* the place where God wants me to be

What is one thing that makes you different from the other Messiah RDs? I'm taller than most of them

Favorite joke: Okay, so two RDs are walking down the road and.... I'm sorry, its too funny, I can't even tell it without cracking myself up

Favorite Bible verse: Do you mean Favorite Three Bible Verses?:

Amos 5:15 "Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate."

Col. 2:13-14 "And you, being dead in your trespasses...he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." And we bear it no more, it is well with my soul.

Hebrews 11:13-14,16 "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland...Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God."

Favorite TV show or movie: The Office, and Pride and Prejudice. There's an obvious correlation.

What are you currently reading? The Inheritance of Loss, Native Son, Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Appalachian Christianity, Son of Laughter. I've never heard of reading one book at a time...

Favorite breakfast cereal? mmm, Puffins

If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring one physical possession with you, what would you bring? A really thick notebook