MINISTRY EXPERIENCE:	Roger is a Member of the Order of St Vincent. He served as a diaconal minister in Riverton, Wyoming. Among his duties there were teaching religion classes at Central Wyoming College, and facilitating the Student Christian Association at both CWC and JETS Technology Institute. He served as pastor of the Wampum United Methodist Church, as a Board Member of the United Methodist Witness in Pennsylvania, and as a Board Member of the Western Pennsylvania Conference Witness Team. He was ordained on May 20, 2001.
Social Action	Several of Roger's Resolutions have been adopted by the United Methodist Annual Conferences in Pennsylvania. Two, “Victim Compensation,” and “Death Penalty: DNA,” have been passed by the legislature and signed into law. Roger is currently serving on the Health and Hospice Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Geriatric and Seriously Ill Inmates under Senate Joint Resolution 149 of 2002. This Committee is improving the health care of prison inmates while reducing the cost to the state. Roger has also been instrumental in holding casinos liable for extended credit lines, and for allowing crime victims' families to testify to sentencing juries.
Publications	As a Doctor of Law and Theology, Roger has published Augustine Through An Eastern Window; The Complete Conquest; A History of the Jews; and The Covenant Code as Law. During his work for death penalty reform, he published Death in Pennsylvania: James V. Bennett Revisited, as a general statement. This was followed by articles such as, “DNA Passes in Pennsylvania,” “Executing the Mentally Retarded” and “Experts should rate Mental Standards." He has also provided Senate testimony regarding the execution of the mentally retarded.