Mike was ordained by the Chaplaincy Institute in 2010 and currently serves as the President of ChI’s Board of Directors. He is a volunteer chaplain in the Florida Department of Corrections, and works with a San Francisco street ministry, Temenos Catholic Worker, where he did his ChI practicum. He has a PhD in mythology/depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California, where his dissertation was entitled: Give Me That Old Time Religion: A Study in Dionysian Ecstatic Rites. He also has a BA/MA in economics from Wayne State University in Detroit and is retired as a senior executive in the banking industry. He lives in Melbourne, Florida with his wife Elizabeth, has four children, three step children and one grandchild.
