John Schroeder was born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1957 where his father was attending the University of Mississippi Law School. He has lived throughout the country as a child and an adult, living in Mississippi, the Chicago area, Houston and Amarillo, Texas, the Cleveland area, Indianapolis, Indiana; Nashville, Tennessee; South Bend, Indiana, and for the last 20 years has resided in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. As an undergraduate John first attended Vanderbilt University where is primary field of study was football - not really, but as one of the scholarshipped athletic trainers to the football team, it seemed like there was time for little else. John transferred to Butler University where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1979, with multiple and highest honors. Immediately after college John joined the staff of Young Life, a non-denominational Christian youth outreach organization and during his tenure with Young Life he was also a student at Fuller Theological Seminary, studying for a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in youth ministries. John left Young Life and seminary before completing his degree. Upon embarking on his career in his chosen field of study, John also studied again at Butler University and in 1984 received the Master's of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry. In 1989, John started Salmon and Schroeder Consultants, which is an Environmental, Health and safety Consulting firm. The firm provides operational consulting, plans and programs, conducts investigations and remediations and does litigation related expert testimony work. John is an ordained Elder and Deacon in the PC(USA) - that's the largest Presbyterian denomination in the US. John is an experienced blogger, with Blogotional being his primary blog and blog of longest standing, but he also has a blog where he is serializing a fiction story called The Terrorbuster Saga and a blog where is collecting material for a potential book project called How To Be A Christian And Still Go To Church. John has been an active political observer and occasional campaigner since his adulthood began. John comes to this blog primarily to be a voice of a moderate 'evangelical' Christian and a center-right political person. The word 'evangelical' is in quotes as used here indicating it is used in the sense it is used by political observers - John does not necessarily agree with all of mainstream evangelical theology.

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