DAVID C. FORD, Ph.D., Professor of Church History, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y.; his Master of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Ok.; and his Ph.D. from Drew University in Madison, N.J.
He has published six books: Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints (co-authored with his wife Dr. Mary Ford; first edition 1994, second expanded and revised edition, 2013); Women and Men in the Early Church: The Vision of Saint John Chrysostom (first edition, 1996; second revised and expanded edition, 2017); Wisdom for Today from the Early Church (2014); Saint Tikhon of Moscow: Instructions and Teachings for the American Orthodox Faithful (1898 - 1907) (co-edited and translated with Alex Maximov; 2016); Church History, in the revised catechetical series entitled The Orthodox Faith (vol. 3 in this series, in which he revised and more than doubled the original text by Fr. Thomas Hopko; 2016); Saint John Chrysostom’s Letters to Saint Olympia (introduction and original translation; number 56 in the SVS Popular Patristics Series; 2016); and the booklet, Prayer and the Departed Saints (Conciliar Press, 1991).
He is currently at work on a major anthology called “Sing to Your Soul” - A Festival of Wisdom from the Writings of St. John Chrysostom. He is also helping to edit a book on Metropolitan Leonty (1876-1965).
Note: Dr. Ford's participation at this Conference does not represent an endorsement by him, or by St. Tikhon's Seminary, of the publications and broadcasts of Uncut Mountain Press and the Orthodox Ethos website.