All dressed up in the winter snow

My name is Daniel Ross-Jones, and I like to wear a number of hats:

One might say I’ve always been a bit of a “computer nerd,” and this blog is just the most current result of that. My only goal in this venue is to continually improve my writing. (Someone told me once, ‘practice makes perfect.’ I’m still perfecting.)

I received my bachelor of arts degree in communication with minor studies in political science from Carthage College in 2006. While there, I was a presidential scholar and held the Department of Communication & Digital Media Service Fellowship in 2005-06. I also held a storied career with The Current, the student newspaper, but eventually ran the show as editor-in-chief my senior year. Most of my fondest memories are as a brother in the Delta Upsilon Fraternity chapter, with which I am still involved as an ad hoc alumni adviser and vice president of the alumni association.

I was previously Director of Communications for the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America from 2006-2008.  I was recognized for my work there by a variety of regional and national outlets, and it is an experience I will carry with me and fondly remember forever.

I’m a seminarian studying toward ordained ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ.  This is not the denomination I was born into or raised in, but instead it is a special place where I am able to give movement to the Divine’s call on my heart to serve all God’s people.  Learn more about my discernment and decision to leave the ELCA in order to join the UCC, and read my vocational statement as prepared for my school’s field studies office.

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