About Matt
The
Reverend Dr. Matt Tittle is minister of the
Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church
in Houston,
Texas. He is a 2004 graduate of
Meadville Lombard Theological School
in Chicago, Illinois, where he received a Master of Divinity degree. He
is the author of Taking Back Faith:
Heretical Thoughts for a New Century (iUniverse,
2006). He is a current member of the American Psychological
Association; the American Association for Pastoral Counselors; and the
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association.
Ministry is Rev. Tittle's third career. Until May
2004, he was an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of
Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and was previously the Assistant Director for
International Affairs of the
University
of Illinois Campus Honors Program.
He received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from
the University of Illinois
in 2001. He also holds an M.A. in the teaching of Russian from the University of Illinois,
an M.A. in national security affairs from the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, California,
and a B.A. in political science from the University of
South Carolina. He is an honors graduate
of the U.S. Defense Language Institute,
and an Illinois certified teacher for grades 6-12.
Before his academic and ministerial careers, Rev.
Tittle was an active duty naval officer for over eleven years. He served
an additional nine years as a reserve officer, retiring in 2003 at the
rank of Commander. During his naval career, he completed four and a half
years of sea duty, served as a nuclear weapons inspector in
Russia, conducted research for the Department of
Defense POW/MIA Office, saw shipboard combat action in
Grenada and
Lebanon,
and had the opportunity to travel to over thirty countries on five
continents. Most of his active and reserve service was as an
intelligence officer specializing in Soviet/Russian military affairs.
Rev. Tittle grew up primarily in
Charleston, South Carolina. His wife, Gail, is a social
worker specializing in child welfare. Gail was an Air Force officer for
fourteen years. They have two sons. Before moving to
Houston, they lived in
Urbana, Illinois for over ten years. In his leisure
time, Rev. Tittle is a marathon runner and triathlete. He has
completed numerous marathons and triathlons, including the
Comrades Marathon in South Africa, and the
Ironman Arizona triathlon.
