Porter, PaulGrender, Aspen2017-02-232017-02-232016-05-11https://hdl.handle.net/1808/23252Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.Oral history interview with Reverend Paul Porter conducted by Aspen Grender by phone on May 11, 2016. This interview features Reverend Paul Porter, a minster in the Disciples of Christ Church in Independence, Kansas. Porter discusses his frequent changes in location as a child of a military family, his religious upbringing in the Baptist tradition and waning involvement in Baptist services after college, his travels overseas in the Navy and exposure to various religious and cultural traditions, and his eventual pursuit of a Masters of Divinity in his thirties before becoming a minister in the Disciples of Christ denomination.All oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Disciples of Christ (Independence, KS)United States NavyBaptistRecording, oralopenAccess