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