Ron Rude is an ELCA campus pastor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Besides ministry, his interests include hiking, gardening, music, Earth science, and travel (England, Palestine/Israel, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nepal, Greece, Turkey, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Germany). He is author of "Abel Emerging: A Reconsideration of the Christian Story for a Sustainable World" (Beaver's Pond Press, 2010). If not a pastor, Ron would have liked to been a History professor, a barber, or a rock-n-roll drummer.