Eric Daryl Meyer is a (mostly) hairless biped raised in the mountains of Colorado. Love of mountains runs in his blood thickly enough that exile to foreign and formal lands (like the East Coast) causes some amount of heartache. Eric and his indomitable bride Carolyn went into Eastern exile (Albany, New York to be specific) in the fall of 2007 where she is a burgeoning young medical student.
As of September 2008, Eric Daryl Meyer is a doctoral candidate in theology at Fordham University in the wild northern reaches of New York City—the Bronx. This blog is oriented (almost) entirely toward Eric’s theological interests, which revolve thematically around creation and ecology, suffering and violence, ethics, and Church’s stance toward culture. Theologians and philosophers who have stamped their influence on Eric’s life and thought include Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Soren Kierkegaard (radical Lutherans!) among a host of others.
Confessionally, Eric strives to remain in the main flow in the great river of Christianity, bound to the true and faithful guidance of its Scripture and creeds within the community of the local church. Practically, his outlook is a mix of different currents within that river. He was baptized Lutheran (young enough not to remember it), called to action within a pentecostal youth missions organization, educated at several evangelical colleges, and perpetually drawn toward ecclesial roots more ancient than any of these several movements. That makes him an odd fellow— an evangelical catholic—equally at home praying in tongues and chanting psalms (though perhaps increasingly the latter).
[Updated 8.6.08]
