Hometown:
Urbana, IL

Place of birth:
Cleveland, OH

Church Affiliation:
Free Methodist

Number of years writing:
50 (started at age 19)

List of Other Publications & year published:
The Pilgrim's Progress and Traditions in Puritan Meditation - 1966
Paradise in the Age of Milton - 1978
Heaven: A Future Finer than Dreams - 1981
Households Under God (with Carolyn Ellis) - 1996
I May Be Different But I'm Part of the Family (with Carolyn Ellis) - 1999
At Ease: Discussing Money and Values in Small Groups (with John and Sylvia Ronsvalle) - 1998
Measures of Breath (poetry) - to be published
Plus several hundred stories, poems, articles and chapters in books

Education:
PHD - Yale - 1960
MA - University of Illinois - 1957
BA - Greenville College - 1956

Employment:
Teaching literature at the University of Illinois - 1962-1994

Family:
Married to Helen since 1956
Three children: Felice, Laurie and Andrew