First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2005
Biography:
Dr. Critchlow came to his current position at Gordon-Conwell after having worked as an adjunct professor at Gordon-Conwell and Bethel Seminary of the East since 2005. His other academic experience includes working as a teaching fellow at Gordon-Conwell and assisting in the archaeological dig at Robinson’s Arch at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Before entering academics, Dr. Critchlow spent 20 years in the U.S. Army in a variety of leadership roles. He was deployed to a number of countries, including Germany, Iraq, Bosnia and Korea, and served his last two years as the Special Operations Command Manager at the Pentagon.
While in the army, he served as a Bible study leader, Sunday School teacher and local representative for the Officer’s Christian Fellowship. Since leaving the army, he has been ordained in the Conservative Baptist Association and has served as a pastor/deacon at churches in Montana, New Hampshire and Scotland. Currently, he serves as a Elder and Sunday School teacher at Trinity Bible Church, Sutton, NH.
Dr. Critchlow’s scholarly interests include the early monarchy of Israel and Judah, prophets and poetry in the 8th to 5th centuries B.C. and the exile of Judah to Babylon. He prefers teaching Greek and Hebrew to students who have struggled with languages in the past.
His personal interests include cycling, Olympic Couch Surfing, and discipling young believers in Christ.
Read more of Dr. Crithlow’s story and his Gordon-Conwell experience in this feature from the early 2000s.
Degrees
- BS (United States Military Academy at West Point)
- MDiv (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
- MABL (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
- PhD (University of Edinburgh)