Gary’s Story and CV

I have been a professor of New Testament since 1988 and an author, serving in the US and in Costa Rica.

I was raised in small-town New England in a family that had roots back to the founding of Rhode Island in the 1600s and to the Puritan movement in London in the 1500s. I grew up in the Baptist church and came to believe in Christ at the age of 6. Then as a teenager, a series of experiences led me to a deeper walk with God and a sense that he was calling me into ministry. After a number of years of education (culminating with a PhD in New Testament from Kings College, Aberdeen, Scotland) I served as a pastor and later as a seminary teacher.

In 1998 we moved to Costa Rica to learn Spanish, so that I could teach at ESEPA Bible College and Seminary in San José. I’ve written a number of articles and several books. See my CV for an entire list of my publications in English and in Spanish.

My wife is Karen, we were married in 1980. We have four grown children.