I am a former soldier, journalist, and speechwriter and the author of eight books and many articles on politics and religion, including, most recently, Christ as Truth, Truth as Christ: Why the Ancients Chose Christ, Why We Must Also, published by Basilian Media in August 2025. My doctoral dissertation was published in 2021 as Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female, by Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock. The same year I published my master’s thesis as The Disappearing Deaconess: Why the Church Once Had Deaconesses and Then Stopped Having Them. Other books include a work of descriptive political theory (Eight Ways to the Run the Country) that has been used to teach politics at Yale and an epic historical romance (A Crown of Life: A Novel of the Great Persecution) that was my wife’s favorite book of all she ever read.

I am also a former Washington bureau chief of Investor’s Business Daily, a member and former board member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and a protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. I have a PhD in theology from the University of Winchester; an MTh in Orthodox studies, also from Winchester; and a BA in English literature from the University of Cincinnati.

My professional experience is quite diverse: military and civilian, public sector and private sector, civil servant and political appointee. I have reported the news and been reported on in the news. I have worked for a major energy company, an investment newspaper, a presidential campaign, an intelligence agency, and two major healthcare organizations. I have written nine books and contributed chapters to four others on banking, foreign policy, political history, and military personnel policy.

Over the years, I have appeared on scores of television and radio shows in the U.S. and Canada, including ABC’s “Nightline,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” NBC’s “Today,” and CNN’s “Larry King Live.” I have been a guest speaker at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the University of Connecticut, the University of Pennsylvania, Catholic University of America, George Mason University, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Rose Hill College, and the University of Eastern Finland.

My dear wife of nearly 41 years fell asleep in the Lord in October 2024 after a long and hard battle against cancer. We have three grown children who are all now married and with children of their own (nine at last count). I am pleased to say that they, their spouses, and their children are all faithful Orthodox Christians in church every week.

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The views expressed here by me are mine and not necessarily the views of any organization with which I am affiliated. The information I provide is on an as-is basis. Readers are advised to read carefully and critically, always keeping in mind the source of what they read.