I grew up in Alabama, attended the University of Alabama, then got my PhD at the University of Virginia. From 1984 until last spring I taught at Wheaton College in Illinois. This summer my family and I moved to Waco, Texas, where I am now Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program. My dear wife Teri and I have been married for thirty-two years. Our son Wes is a rising junior at Wheaton. My work is hard to describe, at least for me, because it revolves around multiple interests, primary among them being literature, theology, and technology. I also watch soccer and write about it, but that's purely recreational.You can find out a lot more about me online: Twitter, Tumblr, my blog, my home page. Google is the friend of inquiring minds.