Joel Mark Solliday is the CCW editor.  He currently serves as the pulpit minister of the Brooklyn Center Church of Christ in Minnesota.  He moved there from New Haven, Connecticut, in November, 2000.  Joel graduated from Pepperdine University in 1976 with a religion and art double major.  He earned the M. Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1979.  In the early eighties, he worked at Abilene Christian University as a Missionary in Residence and visited many “Bible Chairs” and campus ministries throughout Texas to promote training and involvement in mission work.  He later worked at Pepperdine University with Rich Dawson and Carl Mitchell as the Activities Coordinator in the Campus Life Office.  Joel has taught at Pepperdine and at Hope International University as an adjunct professor of Bible and art appreciation.  His pulpit career began with the nineties and continues to this day.