He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 15 and later served a two-year church mission to France and Switzerland. He has lived up and down the West Coast, as well as in Fiji, Samoa, Sweden, Utah, and now Wyoming. Dave has been running the Dave's Mormon Inquiry site discussing LDS and Christian issues since 2003. He is a website editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and also participates at the Mormon weblog Times and Seasons.