Years ago, while challenged by the elimination of his job, Craig turned to reading. He read Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose. The tale told of the political, scientific, cultural, and geographical challenge faced by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. At that time, he had no idea that he would be moving to Idaho and working in the Pacific Northwest. Having grown up in Tempe, Arizona, Craig graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Norther Arizona University, then moved to Philadelphia to pursue graduate school. Having become an ordained pastor, Craig moved to Kansas where he pastored in a small town for several years, before moving back to Philadelphia to pastor a church there, but he missed the west. The great mountains, vast stretches of forests, deserts, and prairie. Little did he know, he would move to Idaho and witness some of the sights on the Lewis and Clark trail. Moving to Idaho and making it home, and the Pacific Northwest has been an adventure.
For the past 20 years, Craig has worked as a high school track coach, a congregational consultant, as a part-time co-pastor, and as a professor. Most of these jobs have been done simultaneously, but not always. His work as a professor allowed him to enter into graduate school again and earn a doctorate in Business Organizational Leadership. His work in consulting and working as a pastor has kept him engaged in philosophy and political and social science.
Craig has taught philosophy, ethics, business, and humanities for many years at the college level and enjoys it very much. Professionally, as a teacher, but also in the various other vocations, philosophical studies have been a constant. Philosophy has enriched his critical thinking, allowed understanding for other points of view, and to find creative solutions for consulting clients. It is Craig's goal that you too will find philosophy to be a base for building your professional, academic, and even personal life.
Craig now lives in Meridian, near two of his four adult children.