Stanley E. Rickard

Ed Rickard (full name: Stanley Edgar Rickard, Jr.) received a B.S. with highest honors from Wheaton College in 1963, graduating in three years with a major in chemistry, then a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1967. His field was social psychology with emphasis on statistics and research methodology, and his dissertation and two subsequent publications dealt with the causal analysis of correlations. In college he was a National Merit Scholar, and in graduate school he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.

He began his career teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the field of his doctorate. Later he taught Bible courses at Pensacola Christian college. His subjects included the Book of Daniel, Christian evidences, and graduate apologetics. More recently, he has served as principal of a Christian academy.

For A Beka Book, a leading publisher of Christian school curricula, he wrote a high school physics text that has been widely used. He is also the author of nearly all the papers on the website themoorings.org, which has been a source of Bible studies since the early days of the web.

His wife and high school sweetheart, Julie, received an M.A. in French from Northwestern University and for many years taught high school French in video classes available to Christian schools and homeschools. In all her husband’s endeavors, she has been an indispensable adviser and helper.

Ed has two sons and seven grandchildren. His older son is a pastor and his younger son is a minister of music. He counts all his family as a great blessing from God.