John Clark received his BA degree in Sociology with a minor in Philosophy from Wheaton College in Illinois. He also received his Master of Theological Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and did postgraduate work in Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.
For seventeen years (1994-present), John has been teaching a variety of courses for the Evening at Emory Adult Continuing Education program, including The Meaning of Life, What’s Your Worldview? Primer on Postmodernism, and Music and Spirituality. He is Program Assistant and substitute teacher for the English as Second Language program at DeKalb Technical College. He also worked for several years as Communications Assistant for Mission to North America at the headquarters for the Presbyterian Church in America in Lawrenceville. His wife Laurie has been teaching blind students and instructing teachers of the blind in the U.S. and Asia for nearly forty years.
They attend Church of the Redeemer in Sandy Springs. He has taught youth and adult Sunday School and been a Christian Ed director, created and taught Sunday School classes on the Biblical Covenants, the Kingdom of God and relational evangelism and led workshops on popular music and film for fourteen years at two different churches in Atlanta. He was also involved in founding a local ministry called Theology Café.