Porter and Cathy came to Christ by different routes. In Romans 11:17-24, God’s Word says that the church is like a gardener’s olive tree and we are like the branches.  Some branches are the tree’s natural branches while others are wild olive shoots that the gardener chose to graft onto the tree.

• Porter was the branch that grew on the garden tree. He was born into a Christian family and raised by two faithful parents to know that he was a sinner and that Jesus Christ is God’s son who became a man, died on a a cross, and was raised from the dead, to save him from his sins.
• Cathy was not raised in a church, but as friends in high school, she saw Porter’s faith and started asking him about it. The Lord was drawing Cathy to Himself and used Porter to share the Gospel with her. She became one of those branches that God chose to graft onto His tree.
• Porter and Cathy now have three teen-aged children.

In addition to graduating from RTS-DC, Porter is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where he teaches a class on the Law and Ethics of War. He is the author of How Should We Treat Detainees: An Examination of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques under the Light of Scripture and the Just War Tradition (Presbyterian & Reformed, 2016), which World Magazine selected as a runner up for Book of the Year in 2016. He also authored “Remembering Paul Ramsey’s “The Just War” published by Reformed Faith & Practice in 2018. Before going to seminary, Porter taught at The Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and contributed numerous chapters and articles on law of war topics for the The Army Lawyer and the The Operational Law Handbook.

Porter can be found posting on Tweeting at @porterharlow and @ChristPresBurke or posting on Instagram at @porterharlow or @ChristPresBurke.