Courtesy: More Than Manners

Besides displaying politeness in various ways, courtesy also involves being gracious, cordial and sincerely respectful toward others. In its broadest sense courtesy is a means of affording dignity to others by being thoughtful, amenable, kind, appreciative and considerate in interpersonal relations.

John has served as an employee of the United Church of God in a variety of media-related responsibilities and as a senior writer for Beyond Today magazine.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1973. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology at Ambassador College, Pasadena, California in 1978. John was ordained an elder in 1994 and serves in the Cincinnati, Ohio congregations.