Background
Smith was born in India to Brethren in Christ missionaries.
Smith was born in India to Brethren in Christ missionaries.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Messiah College and then a masters of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in apologetics. In 1987, he moved to Senegal as a missionary and in 1992, he moved to London where he continued his education working on a Doctor of Philosophy at the London School of Theology. In 2001, he halted his education to concentrate on apologetics following a series of Islamic terrorist attacks (see the September 11 attacks, the 2002 Bali bombings.
The 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, the 2004 Beslan school siege, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and the 7 July 2005 London bombings).
In 2010, he continued working on his Phd at the Melbourne School of Theology.