Guy Christopher Carter:  

After graduating in philosophy from UST and going on to the Spiritan Novitiate in Glennwood Springs, CO, and then withdrawing from there, I tried studyng journalism at UT-Austin, ended up married instead, was blessed with a son (Vincent Michael, 1975) and daughter (Katherine Dorothea Anna, 1979), earned a doctroate in historical theology at Marquette U(1987). Along the way I joined a Lutheran congregation, attended seminary in Chicago (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago = LSTC), graduated and was ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1986, served my first parish in Upper Michigan, then through LWF (= Lutheran World Federation) I served a German congregation in northern Germany from (1989-1991, the period of German reunification). As opportunities to stay in Germany permanently materialized, my first wife decided to leave me and Germany in fall of 1991 and to take our children with her, so I resigned and came back to the States, first to Princeton Theological Seminary as a visiting scholar and then and then serving congregations in the Metro-New York area of northern New Jersey from 1992 to 2002. During that New Jersey period I taught theology at Saint Peter's College-the Jesuit College of New Jersey as first an adjunct lecturer and then an assistant professor. Unfiortunately, that meant I had a ring-side seat for the bombing of the WTC on 09/11/2001. I remarried (Ellen Orendorf) in 1994. In 2002, I resigned from St. Peter's and followed my wife into her retirement from Federal civil service back to her family homestead in York County, PA, near Harrisburg and the infamous Three-Mile-Island nuclear power plant (which you can see right out of our living room window). This was not a good career move, as far as college teaching was concerned. Unable to find another teaching job, I went back into full-time parish ministry in rural York Co., PA, from 2002 to 2008. I then decided to return to college teaching (as though I could just decide to do that) and, following my mother's death, decided to return to the Roman Catholic Church. Lucky for me, I was just regarded as AWOL/MIA during my 30 Lutheran years. I am active in the parish where I live, Holy Infant, York Haven, PA, sing in the choir, serve as cantor and occasionally help with adult education courses. August 2008 was not a real bright time to resign from any job in this country. It did free up some time to work on the first Obama campaign. Our house became the base for Obama-Biden 'Team Goldsboro.' This being 'Tea Party' country, I was very pleased not to have the place bombed or in any way disturbed. I just did some phone canvassing the second time around. Both times were the first time I have ever become directly involved in political li9fe, and I'm glad I did. The teaching job search, after several years and hundreds of applications, proved fruitless, so I finally opted for early retirement. I'm still active as a scholar. I have a book and an article coming out in October 2013 and another article just submitted being published in 2014. I work occasion...Expand for more