Ron was born in Colorado Springs in 1942 and grew up in First Christian Church there. Following high school, he attended Phillips University for two years and went on to earn a BA from Drake University in 1965 and a Masters' of Divinity from Yale in 1969.

While at Yale, Ron served as youth minister at the New Milford United Church of Christ. He then taught English for a year in Thailand at Sahabamrung Academy in the village of Samyek, sixty miles Southwest of Bangkok. After he returned to the states, Ron and Kathy worked for the Urban League in Harlem, NYC in the summer of 1968. They were married that December in her hometown, Laurens, Iowa. During his last year in seminary, Ron was a psychiatric aide at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and at the Connecticut Valley Mental Health Center. He was ordained through the Central Rocky Mountain Region in 1969 at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Colorado Springs.

Following graduation, Ron was called to serve as pastor at Central Christian Church in Elmira, New York (1969-74). From 1974 to 1979, he was the pastor at First Christian Church in Mooresville, Indiana, and during that time, Ron was a Field Education Supervisor (teaching pastor) at Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) in Indianapolis. He also served on the chaplaincy staff at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis during an extended unit of Clinical Pastoral Education.

He earned his Doctor of Ministry from CTS in 1978. From 1979 to 1984, Ron was Associate Regional Minister of the Christian Church (DOC) in Indiana. In 1984, he became Sr. Minister at First Christian Church in Bloomington, Indiana where he served for 16 and a half years.

In November of 2000, Ron returned to Colorado to be the Regional Minister of Central Rocky Mountain Region (Colorado, Wyoming and Utah) of the Christian Church (DOC). He retired in December, 2007.

Ron's has served on several boards including the Reconciliation Commission of the DOC (current), Week of Compassion, DisciplesWorld Magazine, Tennyson Center for Children, Indiana and Colorado Councils of Churches, and Phillips Theological Seminary. While CRMR regional minister, he served as chair of the College of Regional Ministers Anti-racism/Pro-reconciliation Committee. He was a member of the Search and Call Committee for the current General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ.

Since retirement, Ron has continued to enjoy his family -- son David and family in Indiana, daughter Kristin and family in Denver, all five grandchildren, music, golf, reading, and -- something new -- oil painting and cycling.