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Russell Dean Porter (Born: December 10, 1962) Inaugural and Rector Emeritus for Internet Chapel
Russell Dean Porter is a three time earned doctorate recipient, with a Ph.D. in Health Service Organization Research, an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration, and a Th.D. in Theological Ethics. His main research is in ethics and causal analytics with the creation of the Ethics Typology used in healthcare ethics, higher education ethics (within the seminal book "Higher Education Ethics: Five Domains to Improve Higher Education"[1] - now in a second edition), business ethics, and theological ethics to improve pastor care.
Russ traveled extensively throughout all the United States before he attended Binghamton University[2] for his undergraduate degree in economics. The love for travel brought him to over a dozen international countries. He completed his master's in health administration from Lynn University[3] in 1989, and worked in healthcare from the early 1990s through the early 2000s, as well as earned his first doctorate, a Ph.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University[4] in 1994. Russ subsequently completed his Ed.D. from the University of North Texas,[5] as well as a Th.D. from Newburgh Seminary.[6] Russ is married to Johnnie Porter who crafts and works in a university archive part-time, and has a son Brett with Johnnie.
Russ rose through the ranks of health administration starting in a 1000+ bed acute/long term care organization,[7] initially working in the guard unit on the night shift, and then the psychiatric ward as a nurses tech. His administration positions included: 1. Data Supervisor in data management for the 1000 bed organization, 2. Associate Administrator in a 160 bed long term care facility in Upstate New York,[8] and 3. CEO/President of a 190 bed subacute facility in Bedford Virginia.[9] He worked as the Assistant Executive Director for the Virginia Board of Medicine,[10] and then entered the U.S. Air Force as an MSC Officer.[11] Completing his time as an MSC Officer in 1998, he entered higher education with his first academic administration position as a Department Chair at Midwestern State University.[12] After he obtained his tenure at Midwestern, he worked in four more public universities[13][14][15][16] obtaining full professor in 2008, and appointed to the positions of; 1. Chair, 2. Associate Dean, 3. Dean, 4. Associate Provost, 5. Vice President for Research, and 6. Deputy Ethics Officer at the system level. As the Inaugural and Former Deputy Ethics Officer for a large multi-billion dollar system with 12 universities (Texas A&M University System),[17] Russ taught his "Proactive Ethics Program" (PEP) to that system. He currently conducts research on ostiariate ecclesial models, and is a Fulbright Specialist[18] with his on-ground time spent in Nigeria at the University of Lagos, and throughout the rest of Africa via virtual webinars providing PEP to multiple universities. He continues his research as a professor of business to help improve ethics in business, as well as provide causal analytics education for those who seek to conduct "big data" and "system of systems" research using the most advanced statistics (i.e., confirmatory and structural equation modeling with correlated error terms).
Rectorate
In the ecclesial world, Russ began his leadership time by supporting the operations of a mainline church (PC(USA)).[19] He started as a greeter and continued on through different positions, eventually ordained as a deacon,[20] then elder,[21]and as a commissioned pastor at the local level. Russ consistently provided part-time "tent" service to his ordainments and commissions with pro-bono work and supporting research in ecclesial studies.
Beyond the single church work with services provided at Killeen TX (PC(USA)), and afterwards spending his part-time ecclesial sessions in the field helping those who could not make it to church, he grew with the Internet Chapel found at the following site: https://www.facebook.com/InternetChapel/ The IC was created to bring Christian services to those who cannot attend church due to cognitive impairments, cognitive disabilities, ALS, Parkinsons, or similar disabilities, and for the respective caregivers. The IC services are short in duration allowing participants, congregants, and members to receive Christian services with a sermon, and on a monthly basis accept communion. All individuals are able to access the current IC site regardless of disability or not.
The IC grew to over 35,000 individuals at the international level. He helped grow the IC, supervising the pastoral work as the inaugural Rector, always part-time and on a pro-bono basis.
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Ostiariate Seminary
After his commission as Rector for the IC, he was asked to continue his ecclesial studies to create a seminary to prepare individuals for the Order of Porter as the Bishop for the order, retaining the Rector position for life (Rector Emeritus / Advisor). Dr. Porter used extensive exegetical research to ensure the IC services and communions were valid (doing what they were supposed to do), and reliable (continuously doing what they were supposed to do) compared to more traditional services provided in a face-to-face environment. Eventually the Rector / Bishop level of leadership grew to include 20 pastors and deacons from a variation of churches, and ordained porters from the IC, with 12 countries represented at the international level. With the beginning of the IC in 2014, and growing under the fiduciary guidance of the International Cognitive Care Providers Association or ICCPA, the IC operations was at the highest number of participants in 2020, with over 35,605 individuals accessing the IC services (participants) from 34 countries. Rector Porter was eventually ordained as the Doctor of the Church for the Interfaith Ecumenical Church (IEC), and provided pro-bono part time work as the president and provost of the Ostiariate Seminary connected to the ICCPA, IEC, and IC. He is now the Doctor of the Church emeritus, Rector emeritus/Advisor, and president/provost emeritus for the ICCPA-IEC-IC Ostiariate Seminary.
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The Ostiariate Seminary now provides the Order of Porter ordainment, as well as a Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) and Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), due to the exemptions provided by Texas through the Texas Workforce Commission, and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The Th.D. will focus on research to improve pastoral care, especially for those providing sermons to the cognitively impaired and with cognitive deficits (e.g., Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's, Downs Syndrome), and their respective care providers. The Th.D. is a 40 credit hour program with 10 courses that include two for the dissertation, with a completion time of three years. Only 12 individuals are selected for the three cohorts during the three years of the Th.D. (i.e., 4 per cohort or per year), due to the free tuition ($0), and to also reflect the 12 disciples in the early Christian era.
The Ostiariate Seminary also provides a higher doctorate, the Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), which requires a previous doctorate and is an earned doctorate that requires a dissertation at the beginning of the degree (as opposed to the end of the degree with doctorates not at the higher doctorate level). The D.D. also requires review by peers indicating an international presence in theology or healthcare with a theology focus, as well as multiple ordainments/commissions in theology practice. Due to the second and higher doctorate level of scholarship, the D.D. is a 50 credit hour program that may take up to three years to complete with exceptional scholarship presented from a minimum of 10 years post-first doctorate, with the highest level of international portfolio review. The exceptional nature of the degree includes the highest degree of admissions, and especially the graduation requirements, with the D.D. envisioned to be approximately a 1:12 ratio of awardees compared to the Th.D. program.
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