Tyler is Senior Pastor at Oakdale Evangelical Free Church in rural Iowa. He has served in the military as a medic and currently serves in the Chaplain Corps. He has served as a guest lecturer of theology at Action Pastors College in Lusaka, Zambia and is a member of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. Tyler’s interests include human/technology interaction, ecological bioethics, bioethical training in the local church, and end-of-life decision-making. Tyler lives in Iowa with his wife and 3 children.