Father John has served at St. John's since 2007. His passion is for theology, and his focus is on how faith comments on culture and how culture comments on faith. He has a playful, sometimes teasing sense of humor. Originally from Mississippi he was sponsored for ministry out of Atlanta, Georgia and came to New York for seminary. He lived 3 years in Liverpool, England in a community of L'Arche, a community where mentally challenged adults and others live together in Christian community. He studied theology at the University of Oxford and French at the University of Poitiers, France. He was an administrator for IBM and he was also a missionary in Honduras. He speaks French and Spanish and studied Latin and Greek in college. He has an active curiosity and is particularly interested in Ancient Rome.