Alex A. Gondola, Jr., is senior pastor of St. Paul United Church of Christ in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He previously served congregations in Massachusetts and New York. A graduate of Allegheny College (B.A.), Andover Newton Theological School (M.Div.), and Colgate Rochester Divinity School (D.Min.), Gondola has also studied at Hartford Seminary and the New College of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He is the author of Come As You Are, Pray Like This and Don't Forget The Child (CSS), and also contributed several stewardship sermons to the CSS anthology From Every Angle.