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Degrees:
B.A. Centenary College 1984
M.A. College of William and Mary 1986
M.Div. Westminster Theological Seminary 1989
Ph.D. University of Wales 2014
Professor Strange served Providence Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Glassboro, New Jersey, for over nine years before coming to Mid-America. He is an Associate Pastor at First OPC (South Holland, IL), frequently preaching there or speaking in other churches and conference settings.
Dr. Strange is active in the Presbytery of the Midwest (having served several times as moderator) and serves on or chairs various OPC committees, including the Committee on Appeals and Complaints, the Psalter Hymnal Special Committee, the Committee on Christian Education, and the Board of Trustees of Great Commission Publications. He served as chairman of the Committee on Creation Views, as vice-chairman of the Justification Committee, on the Committee on Updating the Language of the Westminster Standards, and on the Committee to Propose Revisions to the Book of Church Order, producing substantial reports for those study committees. Dr. Strange teaches the ministerial Training Institute of the OPC course on the Form of Government and has written extensively on church polity. He also served as the Moderator of the 75th OPC General Assembly (2008) and as general editor of the Trinity Psalter Hymnal (2018).
Professor Strange has been a frequent contributor to the OPC denominational magazines New Horizons and Ordained Servant as well as the Mid-America Journal of Theology. He has also written for and serves as a contributing editor to The Confessional Presbyterian. He has recently published The Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church in the Ecclesiology of Charles Hodge (P&R), The Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ at the Westminster Assembly (RHB), What is the OPC? (CCE), Empowered Witness (Crossway), and his Commentary on the Book of Church Order (the Form of Government and the Book of Discipline; CCE). He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Conference on Faith and History, and the American Society of Church History.
Dr. Strange was married to his lovely wife Kathy for over thirty-four years. She went to be with the Lord in July 2024. He has five wonderful children and five amazing grandchildren. He is a passionate opera and symphony goer (and a retired trombonist), who enjoys reading classic fiction, taking long walks, and spending time with his family and friends.
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