BIO & VIDEO
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In his pastoral counseling as an Episcopal minister, David Code has become an unwilling expert on the life cycle of families. He shares the joy at their weddings and baptisms, as well as the agony of their divorce, custody battles, or kids acting out. Beneath their confident façade, husbands tell him of their sexless marriages and wives joke that they pop Lorezapam like breath mints. David’s mission is to teach preventive medicine on “How to Stay Happily Married and Raise Great Kids.”
- Minister in the Episcopal Church;
- Story Consultant for “Saturday Night Live” (”Japanese Game Show” sketch with Mike Myers, Chris Farley, and Alec Baldwin);
- Consultant Experience with CNN, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, and McCann-Erickson;
- Born and raised on a farm in Canada;
- Educated at Yale, Princeton, and La Sorbonne;
- Member of The Whiffenpoofs of Yale;
- Traveled to over 50 countries;
- Married for eleven years and the father of two children.
- David’s blog on marriage & parenting
- His article in the Philadelphia Inquirer
- A magazine article on David
- David’s op-ed on How The Helping Professions are Harming Our Families;
- Photos of David and his family
David is a minister and family coach who blogs on marriage and parenting for a Pennsylvania newspaper site that has over 500,000 unique visitors per month. He co-authored (with a U. Penn Med School professor) an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, founded the Center for Staying Married & Raising Great Kids, and wrote a regionally syndicated column on marriage and parenting for two years. His work has been endorsed by John Carey, a senior correspondent of “Newsweek” and Ron Roel, a former editor at “Newsday.”
David has over five years of supervised experience as a pastoral counselor, a hospital chaplain, and a hospice volunteer to cancer and AIDS patients and their families. He also has studied family systems and given presentations for five years at the Postgraduate Program of the Georgetown Family Center (formerly part of Georgetown Medical School).
David’s fascination with family and culture led him to live with families in Tokyo, Moscow, and Paris, where he learned Japanese, Russian, and French. He was often invited to stay with families during his world travels, and his home-stays include over twenty U.S. states and fifteen countries throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, including South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, England, Ireland, Mali, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Israel, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Below is a video and some highlights of his background:
