Earl C. Davis is a native Floridian, his ancestors moving to that frontier in the 1820s. A Baptist minister, his pastorates include the First Baptist Churches of Marianna, Florida; Dalton, Georgia; and Memphis, Tennessee. He is the founding pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee. His ministerial training included degrees from Stetson University, DeLand, Florida; Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina; and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Southern Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He has taught at Southern Seminary (Baptist), Memphis Seminary (Presbyterian), Rhodes College (Presbyterian) and Lees-McRae College (Presbyterian). He has written books and commentaries, including "Forever, Amen" (a series of sermons on the Lord's Prayer inaugurating the television ministry of First Baptist Church of Memphis; "Christ at the Door" (evangelistic sermons); "Life in the Spirit" (part of a doctrinal commentary series); "Somebody Cares" (sermons on the crises of life); and "The Stories Jesus Told" (studies in the parables of Jesus). "Vinegar Tales", stories of the Blue Ridge for Children, and "Raccoon Theology", a collection of his columns for the Lenoir, North Carolina, newspaper, have been written in his unsuccessful retirement--he is at this writing in the midst of his ninth interim pastorate. He and his wife Pegeen live at "Rocky Comfort" near Blowing Rock, North Carolina in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. They have two married children, Deryl, who is on the staff of the National Cathedral and is an associate professor at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and Dawn, who is a Real Estate broker living near Raleigh, North Carolina.