In 2001 Dr. Horner moved from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the first Director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville. Richard has his M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in modern intellectual history from the University of Virginia. He has pastored churches in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia and has taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Delaware, James Madison University, the University of Florida, and Reformed Theological Seminary. His wife April has a MS in Pyschiatric Nursing from the University of Virginia, and has served for forty years, first as a psychiatric nurse and then as a home care nurse for Haven Hospice. Richard and April have three children. Their daughter Rachel (UF 2008) and her husband Dave live in Greenville, SC, where Rachel works as an interior designer and cares for Richard and April’s two grand daughters. Their son Ken (UCF 2011) works as an engineer with Aecom in Washington DC, and their daughter Jenna (UF 2014) is well known locally as a both a mural artist and popular Yoga instructor.
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