A Wolf in the Pulpit?: The Setup for Moral Failure and the Abuse of Power
Richard Swartley MDiv., Fuller Theological Seminary, 1959 B.A., John Hopkins University, 1956 Richard Swartley is the author of Marriage Preparation: How to Give Couples the Right Start; Eldership in Action: Through Biblical Governance of the Church; and coauthor with Alexander Strauch of The Mentor’s Guide to Biblical Eldership. Richard Swartley has over thirty-four years experience in church leadership as a self-supported elder. His secular fields were satellite communications equipment and, later, satellite systems engineering. Prior to early retirement in 1994, he managed a sixty-person satellite communications equipment engineering group, and later on worked as a senior systems engineer for technical intelligence systems. Concurrently, Swartley served as one of the founding elders of what has now become a large, evangelical, non-denominational church in the Northeast. Over the course of his ministry there, he served many years as elder, including several periods as chairman of the elder board, and for a length of time on the elders’ staff relations committee.