About the Author

Richard A. Phipps has served as a Senior Pastor for many years. He is a graduate of Luther Rice Seminary, with a Master of Arts degree in Church Ministry. Richard also served twenty-eight years as an Arabic linguist in the United States Navy, retiring as a Master Chief Petty Officer. For the last six years, Reverend Phipps has expanded his ministry through the funeral industry as a Funeral Service Assistant and Certified Celebrant in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is also the author of Poems for the Pastor (2008).