Dallas Darling

Dallas Darling is an author, activist, teacher. Darling also writes a weekly opinion piece for Javan's Daily Newspaper. Many of his articles have appeared on Aljazeera, Truthout, Middle-East-Online, Antiwar.com, Asia Times, Common Dreams, and National Catholic Reporter.
Many of his articles deal with freedom and imperialism, nonviolence and war, justice and inequality, and are often critical of the United States. Dallas Darling is especially critical of empire building and fighting imperial wars of aggression. He believes that the governments primary role should be to protect and help their citizenry by fostering religious freedom and preventing the excesses of any economic system. All citizens, including humankind, should have opportunities to achieve economic and political liberty and to achieve a reasonable standard of living.
Early life
From his auto-biography in "The Other Side Of Christianity," it appears he spent his early life in Rural America. He attended Pittsburg State University where he received a Military Science degree and was the student commander of the schools Reserve Officer Training Corps Program. Dallas Darling was a natural leader, he was very athletic, having played college football,and had strong and likable personality.
Education
From Pittsburg State University, Dallas Darling went to Springfield, Missouri where he attended Evangel University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and History. He also graduated from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, where he received a Masters of Divinity in Pastoral Theology and Religion. He served as the Youth Pastor at the Assembly of God in Battlefield, Missouri and worked for Victory Missions, an outreach for the homeless.
Dallas Darling also worked in the Teen Challenge Program in San Francisco, California and became youth minister for the Great Bend Assembly of God Church in Great Bend, Kansas. He eventually changed denominations and became senior pastor at the Luray-Amherst-Cheyenne United Methodist Churches, as well as at the Burrton-Pleasant Grove United Methodist Churches, both of which are located in Kansas.
He also traveled with John Jacobs and the Power Team, a group of Christian weightlifters who used their strength as a ministry outreach.
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