Michael Wayne Arnold was born in the Republic of Panama while his father was stationed there in the US Army. While he was a small child and his father was still in the military, Michael’s family would move often — living in multiple places in Tennessee, Georgia, and New Jersey. The Arnolds finally settled down in 1991 in Huntsville, Alabama where Michael would graduate from Virgil I. Grissom High School in 2002. After graduation, Michael would attend The University of Alabama in addition to studying at the Fachhochschule Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany and the Universität Klagenfurt in Klagenfurt, Austria. Michael graduated in 2006 from The University of Alabama with double undergraduate degrees in Management Information Systems and German.
Directly after college, Michael went to work for Deloitte as a data analytics software developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After spending nearly two years in the Netherlands, Michael moved back to the States in 2008 and continued his career as a software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2011 Michael became a Christian and received a call to ministry in the Church that he pursued at Vanderbilt University where he graduated in 2019 with a Master of Divinity. In August 2020 Michael was ordained a transitional deacon in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in the Anglican Church in North America. A year later, he was ordained to the sacred order of priests by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Minns.
Michael has been married to his beautiful wife, Jennifer, since March 2015. He became the father of Rosemary Louise in March 2016, Olilver Charles in January 2018, and Virginia Lanelle in June 2020. His extracurricular interests include Wesleyan & Anglican theology, linguistics, economics, projects on the RaspberryPi, working on his old Macintoshes and other computers, home automation, and the liturgy of the English church. Additional information about Michael can be found in his résumé, on social media, and on Pinboard.
