Curriculum Vitae 

MICHAEL ANTHONY MILTON, PH.D., MPA, M.Div.

4009 Ainsdale Drive • Matthews, North Carolina 28104

980.229.3314 • mamilton@alumni.unc.edu 

Strengthening leaders, shepherding shepherds and seeking to heal the wounded spirit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ERSKINE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

James H. Ragsdale Chair of Missions and Evangelism and Director of Strategic Leadership Initiatives • 05/2015 —

US ARMY RESERVE

Command Chaplain, Colonel, United States Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command • 10/01/2015 —Reserve Chaplain from 03/1992 through present (mandatory retirement, 02/28/2018)

REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Charlotte, North Carolina • 11/2007 – 05/2013

Chancellor-President and Chief Executive Officer (service concluded with a medical sabbatical after an African virus; no virus today and stabilized)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Chattanooga, Tennessee • 12/2001 – 03/2008 

Senior Pastor

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA) 

Overland Park, KS/Savannah, GA • 03/1993 – 12/2001 • Ordained Minister • 1993 – Present

Founding Pastor

• Kirk O’ the Isles Presbyterian Church • Savannah, Georgia • 1998-2001
• Redeemer Presbyterian Church • Overland Park, Kansas • .1993-1998
  • Westminster Academy Christian School (AKA Heritage Christian Academy)  

ADDITIONAL SERVICE

TRINITY CHAPEL • 06/2017 – 01/2019 

Founding Pastor; Pastor Emeritus (2019)

Developer-Senior Minister

FAITH FOR LIVING, INC., a North Carolina Religious Non-profit • 12/2001 – Present

CEO / Founder

D. JAMES KENNEDY INSTITUTE • 11/2013 – Present 

Founder, President, & Senior Fellow

REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • 11/2007 – Present 

James Baird Chair of Pastoral Theology and Professor of Practical Theology

BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY • 05/2014-02/2017

Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies (Master of Public Administration courses, Master of Science in Leadership courses, Master of Arts in Biblical Studies)

CHAPLAIN CORPS JOURNAL • 01/2014 – 10/2016

Senior Editor of this peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the U.S. Army

PREACHING JOURNAL • 03/2000 – Present

Contributing Editor

US ARMY RESERVE PRESBYTERIAN AND REFORMED JOINT COMMISSION • 03/1992-present • Chaplain (Colonel)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Ph.D., Theology and Religious Studies, Historical Theology

University of Wales, Trinity Saint David • Lampeter, Wales, Great Britain

09/1993-06/1998

Thesis published: Milton, M. A.  The Application of the Theology of the Westminster Assembly in the Faith of the Welsh Puritan, Vavasor Powell (1617-1670). Diss. University of Wales, Lampeter, 1998. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, UMI Dissertations, 1998. Print. Advisors: Canon Dr. William Price, Dr. Noel Gibbard.

Master of Public Administration 

The School of Government, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Senior Portfolio published: Vocation and Reform: Five Key Areas of Public Administration (Civitas Press, 2016).

Chapel Hill • North Carolina

06/2014-7/2016

Master of Divinity in Theology

Knox Theological Seminary • Fort Lauderdale, Florida

08/1991-05/1993

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Human Resource Management

Mid-America Nazarene University • Olathe, Kansas

01/1987-05/1989

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Society for Biblical Literature (SBL)
• The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)
• Evangelical Homiletics Society
• The American Association of Church History
• The John Donne Society
• The John Milton Society
• Reserve Officers Association (ROA)
• Military Officer’s Association of America (MOAA)
• American Society for Public Administration
• Regimental Chaplain Corps
• Disabled American Veterans
• Sons of the Revolution
  • General Davidson Chapter, North Carolina Division
• American Legion 
  • Department of North Carolina; Post 208, Waxhaw, North Carolina

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (SELECTED)

• Milton, Michael A. “The Future of the United States Military Chaplaincy” in The Chaplain Corps Journal: The Professional Bulletin of the United States Army Chaplain Corps. Summer (2015). <http://www.tinyurl.com/chaplaincorpsjournal
• _____Allison, Lon, Timothy K. Beougher, Alan Myatt, and Michael A. Milton. "My Hope with Billy Graham: A Theological Affirmation." The Southern Baptist Journal of Missions & Evangelism 1.3 (2013): 6-10. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Apr. 2013. Web. 5 Dec. 2013. <http://www.sbts.edu/bgs/files/2012/08/SBJME-1.3-My-Hope-with-Billy-Graham.pdf>.Print.
• _____. "The Pastoral Predicament of Vavasor Powell (1617-1670): Eschatological Fervor and Its Relationship to the Pastoral Ministry." The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. September 43.3 (2000): 517-27. Print.  
• _____. "So, What Are You Doing Here? The Role of the Minister of the Gospel in Hospital Visitation, or a Theological Cure for the Crisis in Evangelical Pastoral Care." The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. September 46.3 (2003): 449-63. Print.  
• _____. "Finding God in Spiritual Depression." The Army Chaplaincy: The Professional Bulletin of the Unit Ministry Team. Summer-Fall (2010): 43-54. Print. 

PEER-REVIEWED ELECTRONIC ARTICLES

• Milton, Michael A. “The Future of the United States Military Chaplaincy” in The Chaplain Corps Journal: The Professional Bulletin of the United States Army Chaplain Corps. Summer (2015). <http://www.tinyurl.com/chaplaincorpsjournal

• _____. "John Donne in the Trenches: Moral Leadership and the Chaplain as the Living Repository of Western Civilization." Chaplain Corps Journal Spring-Summer (June/July 2014): 21-24. Accessed July 02, 2014. http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16040coll4/id/0.

• _____. "Finding God in Spiritual Depression." The Army Chaplaincy: Professional Bulletin of the Unit Ministry Team, Summer 2010, 43-54. Accessed July 02, 2014. http://www.chapnet.army.mil/pdf/pro-bulletin.pdf.
• _____. "Engrafted, Not Replaced” Reformed Perspectives Magazine. 10.10 (n.d.): n. Page. 2 Mar. 2008. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

For a complete listing of journal articles, including popular items, see: http://michaelmilton.org/cv 

Other Periodicals

Numerous sermons and articles in The Christian Observer; news reports and arts and entertainment reviews in World Magazine; editorials published in Overland Park Sun, The Chattanooga Times Free Press; featured in articles about pastoral ministry in Kansas City Star, Overland Park Sun, Savannah Morning News, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Charlotte Observer.

PAPERS READ (SELECT)

Milton, Michael A. “Justification in Seventeenth-Century English Puritanism” (The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2010)

_____. “The Once and Future Calvin” (The Taste of Calvin 500 Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 2009)

_____. “Preaching from the Footnotes: The Challenge of Textual Criticism in Expository Preaching” (Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2008)

_____. “Cooperation without Compromise: Faithful Gospel Witness in a Pluralistic Age” (Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Washington DC, November 2006)

_____. “Historiography and Hope in the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1643-52″ (Confession of Faith Conference, First Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2006)

_____. “So, what are you doing here?” The role of the minister of the gospel in hospital visitation, or a theological cure for the crisis in evangelical pastoral care” (Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Colorado Springs, CO, November 2001)

_____. “The Pastoral Predicament of Vavasor Powell and Radical Welsh Puritanism” (Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Danvers, MA, November 1999)

AUDIO AND VIDEO CATALOGUES

• Atlantic Coast Communications, select online audio and video sermons from 1998-present
• Third Millennium Ministries, select sermons from 1998-present
• Sermons, lectures, and music are all distributed on iTunes.

COURSES TAUGHT

• "Economics," Belhaven University, Graduate Studies, 2015-present
• "Leadership," Belhaven University, Graduate Studies, 2015-present
• "Public Administration," Belhaven University, Graduate Studies, 2015-present
• "Christian Education," Belhaven University, Graduate Studies, 2015-present
• "Vocation and Transformation," Master of Divinity program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• "Vocational Renewal," Doctor of Ministry program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• "Preaching," Master of Divinity program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• "Developing the Missional Church," Master of Divinity/Doctoral program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• "Evangelism," Master of Divinity program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• "Pastoral Theology." Master of Divinity program, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-present
• “Sacred Communication for Chaplains,” U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, 2010-present
• “Pastoral Care for Chaplains,” U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, 2010-present
• Authored course for Chaplain Captains Career Course (DL) to include “Pastoral Care for Combat Stress,” “Ethics for the Chaplains,” “Leadership in the Chaplaincy,” 2014-2015
• “Introduction to Preaching,” Master of Divinity, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98
• “Church Planting,” Doctor of Ministry, Knox Theological Seminary, 1998-2002
• “Church Planting,” Doctor of Ministry, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1999-2000
• “Pastoral Theology: Vocational Holiness in the Pastoral Epistles” Doctor of Ministry, Erskine Theological Seminary, 2000
• “Spiritual Formation,” Master of Divinity, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98
• “Reformed Liturgics,” Master of Divinity, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98
• “Church Planting,” Reformed Theological Seminary, Monterrey, Mexico Partnership, 2009-
• “Pastoral Ministry,” Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2009-
• "Renewing Your Passion for Preaching,"The United States Air Force Chaplain College, Columbia, South Carolina, 2010.
• "Don’t Hold Back: Essential Truths for Chaplains Ministering in a Pluralistic Setting," Kochel en se, Bavaria, Germany
• "Liturgy," U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, Ft. Jackson, SC
• "Sacred Communication," U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, Ft. Jackson, SC

HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEES

• ATS Review, Erskine Theological Seminary, 2016
• Chairman, Strategical Planning, Erskine Theological Seminary, 2015-2016
• Member representing the graduate school of theology, Institutional Strategy, and Planning Committee of the Faculty of Erskine College and Seminary, 2015-2016
• ATS Ten Year Accreditation Committee, Reformed Theological Seminary, 2010-2012 
• Member, Admissions Committee, RTS Charlotte, 2007-2011
• Member, Enrollment Committee, RTS Charlotte, 2007-2011
• Doctor of Ministry task force, Reformed Theological Seminary, 2009-2010
• Presidential Search Committee, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, 2009-2010
• External Examiner for doctoral dissertations, Australian College of Theology, 2010
• External Examiner for doctoral dissertations, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1998-2000
• External Examiner for doctoral dissertations, Knox Theological Seminary, 1998-2008
• Chairman, Strategic Planning, Board of Directors of Knox Theological Seminary, 2006-2008
• Member, Curricula Revision Task Force, Practical Theology subcommittee, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98
• Coordinator, Doctor of Ministry revision task force, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98
• Enrollment Committee, Knox Theological Seminary, 1997-98

BOARD SERVICE

• President and Chairman of the Board, D. James Kennedy Institute for Reformed Leadership, Outreach North America, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 2017-
• President and Chairman of the Board, Faith for Living, 2007-2015
• Member of the Board of Directors, Teaching Pastor, Coral Ridge Ministries, Inc., 2013-
• Member, Board of Directors, Knox Theological Seminary, 2006-2008
• Vice Chairman, Member of the Board, Administrative Committee and The Board of Directors, The Presbyterian Church in America, 1998-2003; 2007-2011
• Member, U.S. Army College of Preachers, 2010-
• Member, Editorial Board, Preaching: A Professional Journal for Preachers, 2005-

ACADEMIC HONORS

• “The Annual Award for Excellence in Leadership,” Mid America Nazarene University, 1989
• “Award in Systematic Theology,” Knox Theological Seminary, 1993
• “Award in Preaching,” Knox Theological Seminary, 1993

OTHER AWARDS

• Nelson Marquis Distinguished Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2018
• “Who’s Who in America,” Marquis Who’s Who, 2007-
• “Who’s Who in the World,” Marquis Who’s Who, 2008-

OTHER WORK RECORD

• 06/1985-04/1993, District Manager, Ashland Chemical Company (I continued to work for Ashland through seminary)
• 03/1978-06/1985, Executive Sales Representative, Dow Chemical Company
• 07/1976-0/1982, Interpreter, (Top Secret) (Albanian), US Navy Security Group, USN, USNR

MILITARY SERVICE

• 1992-2018, Chaplain (Colonel), US Army Reserves (Retired)
  • A Military Resume of Service is available upon request
  • Secret Clearance
  • Nominative position: Command Chaplain, U.S. Military Intelligence Readiness Command
• 1976-1982, Interpreter and Cryptology analyst, US Navy and Navy Reserve (Naval Security Group, NSA, Top Secret clearance)

Military Education

• 1977, The Defense Language Institute, Albanian
• 1977-78, The U.S. Air Force School of Cryptological Science
• 1992, The US Army Chaplain School, Chaplain Officer Basic Course
• 2005, The US Army Chaplain School, Chaplain Captain Career Course
• 2009, Command and General Staff College
• 2011, US Army Training and Doctrine Faculty/Instructor Certification Course
• 2016-present, Air War College, Graduate level strategic studies

Military Assignments

• 2015-, Command Chaplain, US Military Intelligence Readiness Command (MIRC), Fort Belvoir, VA
• 2010-2015, Senior Chaplain and Subject Matter Expert/Instructor/Writer, US Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Jackson, SC
• 2009-2010, Deputy Command Chaplain, 108th Training Command, Charlotte, NC
• 2007-2009, Special Projects-Writing, Office of the Chief of Chaplains, The Pentagon, Washington DC
• 2005-2007, Assistant to the Division Chaplain, 81st Division, Birmingham, AL
• 2001-2005, Brigade Chaplain, 4th BDE, 1st BDE, 87th Division, Birmingham, AL
• 1999-2001, Brigade Chaplain, 5th BDE, 4th BDE, 1 BDE, Institutional Training, 108th Regional Support Command
• 1998, Chaplain, Garrison, Ft. Shelby, MS
• 1996-1998, Battalion Chaplain, USAR Center, Lawrence, KS
• 1994-1996, Assistant Chaplain, 103rd Area Support Group, Kansas City, KS
• 1993-1994, Chaplain Sustainment Training, Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS

Military Awards

• Legion of Merit, 2018
• Medal of Meritorious Service, 2, US Army, 2010
• Army Commendation Medal, 3
• Navy Good Conduct Medal
• Naval Reserve Meritorious Service
• Army Achievement Medal, 2
• War on Global Terrorism Service with Mobilization
• Defense Service Medal, 2
• Reserve Component Achievement Medal, 2
• Army Service Ribbon
• Reserves Component Overseas Training Ribbon, 2
• Army Chief of Staff Badge (service at Pentagon)

REFERENCES

• The Reverend Doug Lee, Chaplain (Brigadier General, USA-R) • Executive Director, the Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains • C – (678) 327-1498 • dlee@pcanet.org • Professional Relationship: Endorsing Agent for Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains, former supervisor
• CH (COL) Jeffrey Hawkins • Commandant, The U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School • O -  803-751-8828  •jeffrey.d.hawkins.mil@mail.mil  • Colleague
• The Reverend Dr. Chris Wisdom, CH (COL), US Army-R • Vice-President, Erskine College, and Seminary, retired • former Deputy Commandant, the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School • (803) 771-6180 • chwisdom@icloud.com • Colleague and friend, a former supervisor

Additional publications, lectures, and presentations are available upon request. Also, see  http://michaelmilton.org/about 

For a complete list of articles published: see http://michaelmilton.org/cv