Bruce Baugus was born in Easton, Maryland and graduated from Penn State (1996, BS Geography), where he met and married Tricia. They have been vacationing at the Assembly every year they can since Mark Walton introduced them to this special place while Bruce was studying at Calvin Seminary (2009, PhD Philosophical Theology. Since 2008, they have lived in the sweltering South, where Bruce is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.