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New Director Introduction
I am pleased to introduce myself as the new Director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry (LIM). This position represents a return home for my wife and me (and our three daughters)—we grew up in New Orleans, and I've taught as adjunct for LIM. It is good to be back for personal reasons but also because Loyola and LIM represent important resources for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Yet LIM's reach extends beyond the city. In my brief time here, I have met and heard from so many of our graduates around the country and around the world who are responding to their baptismal call to ministry. This has indeed been gratifying.
You can learn more about my background by clicking here. But by way of introduction, I'd like to say something about my approach to teaching and scholarship. Most of my studies and teaching have been in Catholic schools and have focused on the Bible and Church history. Because of the primarily Catholic context of my studies, they have been informed by love for God, the Church, neighbor, and God's gift of creation.
In my teaching, I've found that the Catholic biblical and historical heritage can strike unprepared students as odd and disconcerting; it's found in different languages and hails from different historical