Ron Gleason, PhD.

Biography

Dr. Ron Gleason, born 1945 in Charlotte, NC, earned his B.S. in Bus. Admin. at The Citadel in SC. After his time in the Army as a tank commander and instructor, he worked at Pfizer Lab. in Knoxville, TN. Then in 1973, he experienced his call to serve the Lord.

Ron earned his M.Div. from Gordon-Cornwell Theological Seminary in MA and his doctoral degree in Systematic Theology under a Dutch government grant at the Theological Seminar of the Reformed Churches in The Netherlands.

Back in the US, he earned a PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary in PA. He pastored a Dutch church in Holland till 1985, then pastored Bethel Canadian Reformed Church, Toronto till 1994. He is currently the pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Yorba Linda, CA.

He lectures internationally and in the US, and has authored numerous books and articles. He publishes a weekly newsletter on ethics, entitled Ethos. Among his published and upcoming titles are children’s books, books on sports (baseball and wrestling), and his eagerly awaited biography of the late Dutch Theologian, Herman Bavinck (1854–1921), to be released by the Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. in 2009.

Ron is presently the Stated Clerk of South Coast Presbytery of the PCA. He is the President of California Exodus, an organization that encourages parents to remove their children from public schools.

Books

The Death Penalty on Trial: Taking a Life for a Life Taken
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 40,390. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2012 by Nordskog Publishing Inc.. Categories: Nonfiction » Law » Civil Law, Nonfiction » Law » Constitutional law
Challenges both sides of the death penalty debate, citing history, Scripture, the confessionals of the historic reformed church, and the leading voices of today. A voice of sanity and balance.