These words tend to swirl around my life like a twister in a corn field. Oddly, they are significant in making me the unconventional speaker, professor & preacher I am today, but perhaps not in the ways you are thinking. 

After earning a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Relations in 1998, I've spent decades at various universities and colleges as a graduate and under-graduate level
Human Sexuality and Social Psychology instructor.  Along with leading churches and working as a crisis chaplain, I have seen and heard it all.

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Along the way I've met countless people and organizations who mean well and want to help during life's crises, but lack opportunity to learn the skills needed to be true difference makers. It's my desire to inspire and equip in that process. 

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Currently Eric and Cindy pastor The Sanctuary Church on Colorado Springs' westside. A church that exists for the margins and misfits (TheSanctuaryWestside.org), while also traveling and bringing hope, healing, and restoration to others.