A native Texan, Dr. Charles W. Christian is a pastor, ethicist, and broadcast journalist now living in St. Joseph, Missouri. Currently, he is a news anchor and reporter with the News-Press & Gazette Company, which includes daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas and 15 television and radio stations in the Western states.
At the same time, Dr. Christian, who holds a PhD in systematic and moral theology through the University of South Africa in Pretoria, teaches in seminaries and universities, work he has done for over 20 years. This includes serving as Affiliate Associate Professor of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and as an Adjunct Professor of religion at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olanthe, Kansas. Moreover, as an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, Dr. Christian has pastored for nearly 30 years at churches in Texas, Oregon, Washington State and Missouri. Presently, he serves as a minister in the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Having received his undergraduate degree in marketing from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and then an M.Div. from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, Dr. Christian is also a weekly columnist and a published author, contributing to or authoring several books. From 2017 to 2019 he was the Managing Editor of Holiness Today and Grace and Peace Magazines for the Church of the Nazarene and the Communications Coordinator for the USA/Canada Region.