W i d e r  S k y

Phillip is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with Masters degrees  from Texas A&M, Clemson University and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Covenant Theological Seminary. He earned his PhD in Human Capital Development from The University of Southern Mississippi.  He has spent over 40 years writing, recording, touring and producing in the music and broadcasting industries and for 20 years led creative arts and communications departments at large churches in Texas and Kansas. Phillip founded The School Arts Initiative Charitable Foundation having become increasingly burdened by the diminishing fine arts budgets in American public schools.  He has a conviction that fine arts studies should not be considered "extra-curricular".  Rather, participation in the fine arts should be a  "core curriculum" component, properly funded, towards the education of American youth.  Similarly, he was inspired to start Wider Sky because he was motivated by the concept of conscious capitalism, having been positively exposed to companies which have embraced its tenets as core values.  Phillip has 4 grown children who were all educated in the Texas and Kansas public schools and universities.  He lives with his wife Rene just outside of Austin, Texas.