I have been an amateur radio operator since 1978 with principal interests in CW and digital modes. I am also active in Navy-Marine Corps MARS as NNN0TET. In addition, I am the trustee for the Wake Forest University Amateur Radio Club license WF4DD.

In cooperation with the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club and Forsyth ARES the club conducts an emergency services training net that meets on the W4NC repeater 145.47 MHz (107.2 Hz tone) following the FCARES net (begins at 20:30 ET) or at 21:00 ET, whichever is later.

I came to Wake Forest University in the fall of 1970 and had the pleasure of teaching there for forty-one years in the Department of Religion. In addition to teaching courses in Christian Bible, I have also taught various ancient languages including Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac Egyptian, and Coptic and a first-year seminar  on the topic “Love in the Bible and in the Ancient East.” I even taught a writing seminar once through the Department of English. In the realm of archaeology, I have been privileged to take Wake Forest students for excavations in Israel at Caesarea Maritima (1976, 1978, 1986, 1994, 1995) and to Tell el-Hesi (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983). The spring of 2003 found me in Vienna as director of WFU's Flow House.

With much gratitude for the support of the university and the Department of Religion, I retired from Wake Forest University as the John Thomas Albritton Professor of Religion at the end of the spring, 2011 term and am now Professor Emeritus. I am pleased to report that another amateur radio operator, KG4FGC, Ken Hoglund, has been appointed to the Albritton professorship.

I am a priest of the Episcopal Church and served for many years as theologian in residence at St. Paul's Church in Winston-Salem, NC. I was also interim vicar for St. Clement's Church in Clemmons, NC. In the Diocese of North Carolina I have served in many capacities, most recently as an instructor in biblical studies for the Deacon Formation Program and a member of the board of the School of Ministry. I have been a volunteer Hospice chaplain since 1985 and serve on the Ethics Committee of Hospice and Palliative Care of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.