Bruce N.G. Cromwell

by Bruce N.G. Cromwell

Hometown:
	Lansing, MI
Place of Birth:
	New Castle, IN
Current Church Home:
	Lansing Central Free Methodist Church
Number of Years Associated with the Free Methodist Church:
	Born and bred in the FMC, from several generations of faithful FM-ers both paternally and maternally no less!
Number of Years Writing:
	I’ve been doing the Church History article for Light and Life for six years.
List of Other Publications and Year Published:
	“Making Room for Mary”, The Australian Wesleyan, 2006 “Infant Baptism”, Sacramental Life, 2006 “Overview of Christian Orthodoxy,” “Orthodox Calendars,” “Orthodox Holidays,” “Swedenborgian Church (Church of the New Jerusalem),” and “Unitarian Universalism” chapters for Religious Holidays and Calendars: An Encyclopedic Handbook, Third Edition, 2004 Translation, research, and editorial work on both Francis of Assisi: The Saint (1999) by Fr. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv.; and The Image of God in the Antiochene Tradition (1999) by Fr. Frederick McLeod, S.J.
Education:
	BA, Religion and Pre-medicine Biology, Greenville College, 1991 MA, Historical Theology, St. Louis University, 1997 Ph.D., Historical Theology, Early Church, St. Louis University, 2001
Employment:
Associate Pastor, Winona Lake Free Methodist Church Associate Pastor, Alton (Emmanuel) Free Methodist Church Pastor, Hannibal Free Methodist Church Pastor, Granite City (Central) Free Methodist Church Adjunct Professor of Religion, Greenville College Pastor, Centralia Free Methodist Church Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Spring Arbor University Lead Pastor, Lansing Central Free Methodist Church
Family:
Married to the Rev. Mindi Grieser Cromwell, Ph.D., with two wonderful sons, Levi Daniel Grieser and Bennet Nelson.
Why have you responded to the call to fulfill your role in the magazine?
St. Jerome once said, "It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot." I suppose the opportunity to "offer what I can" to my Church through this medium was way too good to pass up! Hopefully it will have some small part to play in bringing each of us to completion in Christ.