Dr. Horace (Skip) Horton-Parker has been teaching systematic theology, comparative religious studies, biblical studies, and philosophy at graduate and undergraduate institutions in the US and abroad for more than forty years. At present, he is also an adjunct professor at the London School of Theology, St Leo University, and the College of the Albemarle. He earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees at Regent University, where he also taught in the School of Divinity for ten years. He also earned a Masters degree in Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia.  

His doctoral dissertation was on the theological, philosophical, and scientific implications of beauty (theological aesthetics). Other research interests include comparative religions, religious epistemology and postmodernism, eschatology, Eastern Orthodox theology, and the Holy Spirit and science. He is a founding member of NEXUS, an interfaith dialogue group. He has visited the Vatican as part of a team involved in Evangelical-Roman Catholic dialogue. He attends St. Basil the Great Antiochian Orthodox Church in Hampton VA. He was a professional musician from some years. On a good day, you will find him kayaking with his lovely wife Dr. Radha Horton-Parker, or playing music with his friends.