Fun Facts:
- He rolled down canyons and highways in three different car accidents as a missionary in Scotland and walked away without a scratch each time. Maybe someone should stop giving him cars to drive.
- He has a thing for racquetball, pickleball, ultimate frisbee, and an unusual—perhaps, unnatural—obsession with Café Rio.
- “Boots is Captain Awesome.” Boots is a cat to casual observers, heathens, and barbarians. Bro. Degn calls him a Studmuffin. Bro. Degn really, really, likes his cat. No, . . . really.
- If another book of scripture was added to the sacred canon, Bro. Degn believes it should be Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
BIO: PATRICK DEGN began teaching for the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion in 1992 and was hired full-time in 1996. “True blue” is Aggie blue, not the “Other-Kind-of-Blue-Down-South-Which-Shall-Not-Named-Unless-Under-Extreme-Duress.” He travels and teaches on tours to American and Church History sites, the Holy Land, Mediterranean, and loves each place’s people, culture, and history. He holds degrees in Classical History, Latin, and Military History, specializing in ancient Greek and Roman warfare.
He teaches adult religion classes for BYU Continuing Education and regularly presents at BYU Campus Education Week. He has also taught at EFY and other youth and adult programs.
He is an Anglophile, Hellenophile, Inklings-geek (Tolkien, Lewis, Chesterton, etc.), and all things Rome. His favorite way to spend time is laughing, hiking, reading, playing, and working with his wife and four children through adventure, service, and learning experiences.