CLR was born in 1993, after many years of spiritual gestation and not a little labor!

The founder and Director, Dean Davis, graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1969 with a degree in Philosophy. Like many of his contemporaries, he was spiritually restless and soon plunged headlong into the counterculture. For four years he studied and practiced a wide variety of Eastern religions, especially Zen Buddhism. Then, in 1974, the God of the Bible graciously stepped in, turning a seeker into a finder, a sinner into a "saint," and an orphan into a beloved son--all through a life-changing revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

After his conversion, Dean married Linda, and together they attended Melodyland School of Theology in Anaheim, California. There he began to experience a love for systematic theology and an increasing desire to teach the Bible.

Since his graduation in 1980 (M. Div.), Dean has followed the Lord down many roads. He has served as a pastor, teaching elder, Sunday School director (with Linda), Christian bookstore manager, pro-life leader, and substitute school teacher.

In recent years, he has also devoted considerable time to writing. In 2005, Dean published The Dangerous Journey of Sherman the Sheep, an allegorical adventure story for "tween" boys and sheep of all ages.

In 2007, he released In Search of the Beginning; A Seeker's Journey to the Origin of the Universe, Life, and Man. This ambitious work is an in-depth study in comparative cosmology that seeks to demonstrate the profound reasonableness and beauty of the traditional biblical model. In early 2009, it appeared in a revised edition that features additional material on topics such as radical geocentricity and New Age cosmology. 

Most recently, Dean has published The Test: A Seeker's Journey to the Meaning of Life. Equal parts apologetics, systematic theology, and autobiography, this book is Dean's "theory of everything," as well as his best effort at opening up the glories --and reasonableness--of the biblical worldview to spiritually famished postmodern man.

Through all the years of change, work, struggle, and growth, Dean's love of teaching and writing has remained constant. Grateful that his gifts have been affirmed by many Christian leaders in his home town, he now uses them to serve churches, schools, and the reading public through the ministry of CLR.

Dean and Linda currently reside in Santa Rosa, California. Believing with Luther Burbank that it is indeed "the chosen spot of the earth as far as nature is concerned," they hope to grow old there together, even as they keep careful tabs on their five far-flung kids: Mark, Beth, Jonathan, Rebekah, and Sara.