Curran and his wife, Abby, have four children (Ellie, 12; Hudson, 10; twins Jack and Pete, 8). They are graduates of Covenant College where they met. Curran served as a youth minister in North Carolina before earning an MDiv at Covenant Theological Seminary. He served as an elder in St. Louis, MO, before becoming the pastor of a church in Carbondale, IL. He recently completed a PhD in historical theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He loves hiking, paddling, sailing, reading, history, economics, personal finance, real estate… but is a total sports neophyte 🙁