Steve comes to Loyola with extensive management and marketing experience, having previously worked for several religious publishers including Loyola Press, Abbey Press, Sheed & Ward, and SVS Press.  His duties include facilitating online learning courses and groups, project management for special events and non-credit studies, and communicating with a variety of constituencies interested in the wide-array of transformational academic offerings of the Institute of Pastoral Studies. In addition to his part-time work at IPS, Steve is the pastor of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kenosha, WI, where he also directs a spiritual life center, which provides spiritual companioning, primarily with pastoral leaders from a wide variety of faith traditions. Steve has co-authored two books and written numerous articles and book reviews in the area of spirituality and pastoral care.