is Executive Director of the Emmaus Center for Biblical Teaching and President Emeritus of Pacific Rim Christian University in Hawai’i. He completed his doctorate in education and religion at Columbia University in New York City, an M.Ed. in religious education from the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College, and a B.A. from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Randy has taught at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Union Theological Seminary in New York City, New York University, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Vancouver School of Theology, Pacific Rim Bible Institute Asia, Bible Institute of Hawai’i, and continues to teach at the graduate school of Pacific Rim Christian University. He is the former co-chair of the Bible and Theology group of the Society for Biblical Literature. He has co-planted three churches and pastored in churches across five denominations for thirty years. He is a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Kapahulu, Hawai’i.