About Stanley Cox

Stanley Cox is a 74-year-old retired teacher with 37 years of experience in both public and private educational institutions.  Among the subjects he taught were English literature and composition, history, humanities, geography, western literary classics, philosophy and historical theology.

 

Stanley graduated from Kansas University with degrees in classical languages and history: emphases ancient, classical and medieval. While there is participated in the Pearson Integrated Humanities program which developed his liberal arts approach to academics and teaching. He also acquired a master’s degree in teaching from Webster University, St. Louis and another master’s degree in educational leadership from Wichita State University. He also studied comparative literature/medieval studies at Washinton University, St. Louis for two years.

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From his first profession of faith in 1969, Stanley journeyed through much of the western Christian landscape from the evangelical Jesus Movement of the 1970s, later experiencing traditional Roman Catholicism in the Pearson Program and at St. Louis University, and was headed to become a Reformed Presbyterian minister upon graduation from KU. His journey finally ended at the doorstep of Eastern Orthodoxy.  He has been an active member of St. George Cathedral in Wichita, Kansas for over 30 years and continues to study and share his experience and learning in historical theology and philosophy.

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Stanley has a family heritage of chronic alcoholism and suffered from this disease on and off for over 20 years, barely escaping with his life.  He has been sober and in recovery for the last 37 years, continuing to work with other alcoholics, addicts, and their families.

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Stanley recently became a widower after 31 years of marriage to his lovely wife, Janet.  He also has 6 children and 8 grandchildren.