About
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I’m Steve Bagdanov, the High Priest here at the Temple…here is a little about me:
I grew up in Montebello, California the 6th child of Russian immigrants. I went to high school in Whittier, California and attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara where I majored in Religious Studies and almost Philosophy. I opted for a semester in Israel and didn’t get my Metaphysics and Epistomology classes in for a major in Philosophy. It was at Westmont that I met my wife, Kelly and we have been married since 1981.
Kelly and I have four sons, Timothy (85), Levi (88), Caleb (90) and Joseph (92). Timothy (2007) and Levi (2010) both graduated from Westmont, Caleb (2012) is presently a student at Westmont and Joseph (2014) will begin Westmont in the fall of 2010. We have a high commitment to education and Westmont. All four of our sons were home schooled as well. My wife runs a home school group called Grace Preparatory School and is a master blogger herself at Substantive Education.
I have been a pastor since 1985, first at Canyon Hills Evangelical Free Church and since 1991 at Nuevo Community Church. I attended Westminster Theological Seminary and graduated from Talbot Seminary and School of Theology in 1985 with that most pretentious of degrees, Master of Divinity. Somehow I think I will never master divinity. My theological leanings are Reformed.
The Temple is a place to engage people in a deeper way in the integration of theology, philosophy and Bible. Feel free to make a comment, I believe in the priesthood of all believers and what better place to engage the priesthood but in the Temple!!