Peter Milner

Time flies when you are following your dreams. I grew up playing basketball every day in the gym at Wake Forest University. 17 years late, I played basketball at Wake Forest with Randolph Childress and Rodney Rogers. This experience of fierce competition and teamwork have given me skills that I bring to the table every day of my life. If playing basketball on a sweet 16 team was not enough, my own personal battles with my health were also refining. Just two years after graduation my life changed even more. I had a life altering experience in 1997, which led to my having a blood clot the size of a softball in my brain. I put on the brakes, slowed down for a year, and then decided to pursue my dreams. In the same year that I met my wife of 16 years, I entered Duke Divinity School. Studying at Duke led my wife and I to move to Cameron Village in Raleigh, and my wife and I forged a new ...