Carl Stockton

My undergraduate majors were in English, Speech; I was in college theatre as well as debate, college newspaper writer; active in Wesley Foundation. In Summer’s I was an associate house parent at Lake Bluff Children’s home in Illinois. I was a student assistant in the English Department.

At Boston I wrote for NEXUS and KAIROS and worked as an assistant to the director of the Student Christian Association I was for two years a youth director for Haven Methodist Church in East Providence, Rhode Island and the summer pastor at Calvary Methodist Church, Newport Rhode Island.

Ordained Deacon and Elder in the Mo. West Conference and served as pastor of First Methodist, Buckner, Mo and at Royal Heights Methodist Church in Joplin, Mo. I served for two years with International Voluntary Services in Vietnam , as a teacher, education team leader and finally acting Chief of Party. I then went to Oxford for my doctorate in Ecclesiastical History, then to McKendree College in Illinois as an Assistant Professor of History; then to Talladega College in Alabama as Professor of History and Chair of the Social Sciences Division. Finally, I went to the University of Indianapolis as Professor of History and Academic Dean, retiring in 1998 to Sarasota, FL where I have been active in the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, and in the Association for Campus Ministry as President of the Board. I am a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Great Britain) and the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists as well as a member of the Episcopal Historical  Society. I have written on the origins of Methodist worship and on African American ecclesiastical history. I am married to Gillian, and have two married sons in Atlanta and Santa Monica, CA. Four grandchildren ages 6 months, 6, 8 and 10 years old. Still in touch with many of my students and many Boston classmates around the world.

Location: Sarasota, FL