a brief bio

Full Name: Daniel William Cruver 1st
My wife, Melissa, and me:

Age: 41

Place of birth: Gary, Indiana, United States (home of the Jackson Five)

Location: Travelers Rest, South Carolina, United States

My e-mail: dan (at) eucatastrophe (dot) com or eucatastropheblog (at) gmail (dot) com

Favorite Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

My Boast: my boast is in the one who though he was rich, for my sake he became poor, so that by his poverty I might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Church: Redeemer

Church Activities: one-anothering in the gospel of God

Family: Wife – Melissa (Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instructional Development); Children - H (10), D (died two years ago at 3 years of age), I (5), and N (3)

Vocation: Ministry Outreach Coordinator for Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency. I was previously a professor of Bible and Theology who was (and is) passionate about adoption.

Favorite Dead Guys: John Owen, Martin Luther, Henry Martyn, Jonathan Edwards, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Edmund Clowney, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien

Favorite Living Guys: Hartley Cruver (my father), Toby Woodard (my pastor), Tim Keller, T.F. Torrance, John Piper, Graeme Goldsworthy, Richard Hays, Peter O'Brien, and others

A Favorite Quotation: “To know this God, who both condescends to share all that we are and makes us share in all that He is in Jesus Christ, is to be lifted up in His Spirit to share in God’s own self-knowing and self-loving until we are enabled to apprehend Him in some real measure in Himself beyond anything that we are capable of in ourselves. It is to be lifted out of ourselves, as it were, into God, until we know Him and love Him and enjoy Him in His eternal Reality as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in such a way that the Trinity enters into the fundamental fabric of our thinking of Him and constitutes the basic grammar of our worship and knowledge of the One God” (Thomas F. Torrance, The Ground and Grammar of Theology, 155).