User:GHColley

Hello! I'm adding this userpage for two reasons: to introduce myself, and to get acquainted with the Wikipedia editing process. This page itself is a work in progress...just like Wikipedia.

The basics

• I'm a 60's-something white male living in Northern California
• I lived all around the world growing up (my parents were teachers in American schools in the 1960's - 1980's)
  • Athens, Greece; Tripoli, Libya; Guam; Taipei, Taiwan; Esfahan, Iran
• Education:
  • BA - Economics, Claremont Men's College, 1982 (since renamed to Claremont McKenna College)
  • MDiv, Masters in Theological Studies, Franciscan School of Theology, 2015
• Work history
  • 25 years in banking and finance
  • [4 years of graduate seminary]
  • 10 years part time service as a hospital chaplain
• Faith affiliations
  • I'm a Catholic by choice, baptized as an adult in my mid-30's
  • I'm a permanently professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order
• My interests
  • Christian spirituality and transformation
  • Pastoral care and spiritual accompaniment
  • Social justice work in various forms, including development of web content
  • Economic systems rooted in Christian theology

My project(s)

I will add a list of articles in draft as they begin. My primary interests are organizing information relating to the Franciscan Charism, Franciscan Spirituality, and the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (no links, because - Yep! - no good articles yet). The Franciscan tradition is a well kept secret in Christianity and broader spirituality, and I'm not the only one who realizes how much the world might benefit from easier access to and a deeper understanding of Franciscanism's countercultural value in a world gone (temporarily) insane.

Because of my background in economics and finance, I am also interested in the Christian rooted economic system known as Distributism.

I am working on joining {{User WikiProject Spirituality}}