Randy Stewart again puts his medical and religious background to work in The Religious Journey: The Nature of God. The son of a Southern Baptist pastor, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 from Samford University, majoring in history and religion. He has served over fifteen years as a bivocational minister and is presently the minister of music at First Baptist Church in Arab, Alabama. A 1984 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, he is currently the Director of Emergency Medicine of Marshall Health System