Tim is an oceanographer who lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin and teaches at U.W. Madison. He has degrees in oceanography from the top universities. His specialty: the most majestic of all sea creatures, the whale.
As far back as he can remember, Tim’s parents fed him on a diet of great sea stories: Moby Dick, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Shackleton’s Endurance, and a hundred other tales. These were the stuff of his dreams and his every waking moment. In time, the oceans and their majestic whales became not just his career, but the love of his life, his very reason for existence.
But there’s one very curious thing about Tim, the oceanographer. In the almost five decades of his life, he’s never been to the ocean. He can tell you more than you’d ever think to ask about the Tasman Sea and the Arctic and the humpback whale. But he’s never so much as dipped his toe in a body of water bigger or brinier than Lake Michigan. You see, Oconomowoc is an awfully long way from both the Atlantic and Pacific…
I am Tim by another name, another profession. I am a pastor and trained theologian of sorts, and I’m going to Israel… for the first time! Go fish, I mean figure!
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