In his youth, Mike lived a stereotypical Midwestern life. He grew up in a small town, spent his free time hunting and fishing with his dad and brother, played high school football and baseball, and attended the local Methodist church with his family occasionally.  After high school, Mike spent his first few years at Ohio University chasing all the world’s pleasures before discovering that true happiness can only be found in friendship with Jesus Christ. After a radical conversion to Christ, Mike became involved with Campus Crusade for Christ, where he met his wife, Jenni. After graduating, Mike and Jenni were married and moved to Charlotte, NC, where Mike received an MA in Philosophy from Southern Evangelical Seminary.

Focusing primarily on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas during graduate school, Mike became convinced that Christ had established the Catholic Church, so he and his wife were received into the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2013. After moving to Cincinnati, Mike studied theology at the Athenaeum of Ohio, where he received a master’s degree in 2020.  Mike’s primary passion in life is to help men answer God’s universal call to holiness and obey Christ’s command to “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Mike founded the St. Joseph Society to help men answer this call and become the men that God created them to be. He teaches theology at a Catholic all-boys high school in Cincinnati, where he and his wife reside with their five children.