I was born in Madras, India. I grew up in the Anglican Church, attending St George's Cathedral. Some of my earliest memories of church are of listening to Lesslie Newbigin preach from the psalms.

My parents raised me with love and discipline. The honesty and reality in their faith has formed the context for my soul. I lean on my brother in just about every circumstance - it is my great loss that we live half a world apart.

Two excellent Catholic schools - Montfort and Don Bosco - did what they could to educate me. 

I studied Mechanical Engineering at IIT, Madras. Thereafter I worked in Bombay for several months - during which it dawned on me through my community of friends there that faith in Jesus is utterly real, practical and communal; I'm still working out in my own life what I saw back then in Anand, Clement and Ranjit. 

Later I moved to graduate school in the US. During my PhD I explored the philosophy of design, writing software to model design concepts in the domain of mechanical engineering.

Along the way, it occurred to me that I might do well to spend my life engaging with the really real, and so I pursued ordination and service as a pastor. Paul Sundaram, Mike Marette, Eugene Peterson, NT Wright, Karl Barth, Brennan Manning, Henri Nouwen, Walter Brueggemann, and Graham Tomlin are some of those who have taught me - and continue to teach me - what this could look like.

For many years I served international students on campus in the US, and church-plants in Asia. 

I spent five years working with Luder Whitlock, Faith Durand, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Chongsiriwatana, and Kennedy Kok to develop new models for theological education. We partnered on projects with Graham Tomlin, Alister McGrath, Dallas Willard, Bill Edgar, Gordon Pennington, Bruce Waltke, and others of their ilk. It was an amazing experience.

I love exploring how the Jesus way is being incarnated in new and creative ways while remaining deeply true to the faithful past. I find the biblical text endlessly generative and formative. From my son I have learned to find jazz a fascinating model for interpretation and incarnation.

I absolutely love writing code, and it is good for my soul. Coffee, jazz and Xcode are essential elements of shalom. Swift is dazzling me away from Objective-C these days, slowly but surely.

My wife Jeanne puts up with me with infinite grace and extreme persistence. Our children Micah & Hannah have been the most wonderful gifts to us. Micah studies jazz piano at Juilliard, and Hannah is taking the world of 7-th grade education by storm from within.

My Jesus people these past few years are a ragtag motley crew: Abby, Louie, April, Henry, Dorothy, Lilian, Mike, Faith, Sharrie, Dave, Kevin, Amy, Mike, Bridgette, Karen, Patty... it's a weirdly wonderful experience. It's the ragamuffin gospel incarnate, and I am deeply grateful for them. There are others I serve with - Zoe,  April and JT in particular - who reflect Jesus to me in ways that continually astonish me.

These days I am deeply involved with serving refugees and the homeless. More than in anything else I have ever done, I sense I am closest to where Jesus is - to his heart, to what he's up to and how he's doing it - while I'm with my refugee friends at the Bridge. Naresh and Jacque are astonishing examples of the Jesus way among those who would have been his closest friends back in his day, and I seek to follow their lead.

Jesus is simply amazing. He's my snarky rabbi who is patiently at work on me, in me, for me, through me. Often, to my regret, I find myself wandering away from him. But he always draws me back with gentleness and wisdom. He dispels my muddled confusion and breathes in sane clarity with his probing questions. I look forward to meeting him in person.