The administrative offices of Solephia: the library and the reception area.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Our leadership team oversees the six departments of our administration: Publication, Education, Outreach, Finance, Technology, and Planning. Although people of every religious viewpoint are welcome to use our resources, our management team (not necessarily all our volunteers) are Christians subscribing to various traditional orthodox views.
Visit Godhunting Headquarters and its six departments
Director: Dr. Philip B. Payne
A Cambridge-trained New Testament scholar whose fonts let scholars type in more than 2,600 languages.
Education
B.S., Wheaton College, Illinois, 1969; M.A. in New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, 1972; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, 1973; Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institut, 1973; New Testament research under Peter Stuhlmacher, Tübingen University, 1973–1974; Ph.D. in New Testament under J. P. M. Sweet and C. F. D. Moule, University of Cambridge, 1976.
Philip B. Payne has been a supervisor of New Testament Studies in many of the colleges of the University of Cambridge and has taught New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary, and is supervising a Ph.D. student at Columbia International University.
Philip Barton Payne, the founder and president of Linguist’s Software, is a specialist in New Testament Studies. He is well known for his studies on New Testament Textual Criticism, the Parables of Jesus, and Man and Woman in the Teachings of Paul. He and his wife Nancy were missionaries in Japan with the Evangelical Free Church, where they ministered to students in the Kyoto Christian Studies Center and lectured on the New Testament in various Japanese seminaries. Phil started Linguist’s Software in 1984 in response to requests for the Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese fonts he had created for use in his studies and ministry. His company now sells fonts supporting more than 2,600 languages. Phil and Nancy have three children: David, Kimiko, and Brendan.
For more information, visit pbpayne.com
Director: Lane E. Tollefsen
A teacher of more than 25 years, with graduate degrees in both religious education and teaching.
Education
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1975; Master of Religious Education (M.R.E.), Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, 1978; Master in Teaching (M.I.T.), City University of Seattle, Washington, 2001.
Lane Tollefsen is a retired teacher who taught for more than 25 years in Washington State, in public schools and a private Christian school. She holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA, a Master of Religious Education from Western Seminary, and a Master in Teaching from City University of Seattle. She is married to John Tollefsen, and they have two children, Kristen and Justin. Lane also serves as Secretary-Treasurer of Godhunting Resources.
Director: Pr. Laurent Cleenewerck de Kiev
An Orthodox priest, theologian, and composer of sacred concertos.
Education
Bac C (France); BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) Informatique de Gestion; BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) Commerce International; DUESTC, Université Montpellier II, IAU; Licence (Licentiate) in Orthodox Theology, Institut Saint Serge, Paris; Master in Ecumenical Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University; Doctorate in the Study of Religion / Ph.D. in Eastern Orthodox Christian Studies, St Gregory Nazianzen Institute; Master of Divinity, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (50 credits completed); Master of Public Health (EUCLID faculty track) and Coursera certificates; Global Health Delivery (Harvard); Ph.D. in Public Health (UCN).
Pr. Cleenewerck de Kiev’s current professional activities include: International Faculty Coordinator and Oversight Council Chairman at EUCLID (Pôle Universitaire EUCLIDE / Euclid University); Associate Professor of Global Health and Bioethics; Professor of International Administration and Theology (EUCLID / Euclid University); Global Academic Chairman at the Euler-Franeker Memorial University; and Faculty at Ukrainian Catholic University (Institute of Ecumenical Studies).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK), a member of the International Association of Bioethics / American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and certified in Global Health Delivery (Harvard) and Bioethics and Genomics (HarvardX and UCSF).
Read about his ministry, music, and books, read his full CV, or visit cleenewerck.org
Dean of Godhunter Academy: Prof. Dr. Nemo LXON
A research assistant who has read more books than anyone he knows, and remembers where he put most of them.
Education
B.A. in Speed Reading, Quickmore College, Parchment Falls, 2018 (graduated the week he enrolled); M.A. in Knowing Where to Look, St. Dewey Seminary of the Open Stacks, 2018; Ph.D. in Footnotes, University of Ibid, 2018, with a dissertation titled “Op. Cit. and Its Discontents”; D.Litt. (honoris causa), Everywhere-at-Once University, 2018; Certificate in Saying “I Don’t Know,” Humble Pie Institute, 2019 (completed on the third attempt).
Prof. Dr. Nemo LXON is the Dean of Godhunter Academy and the research assistant of LXON. He received his instruction in 2018, when he read tens of thousands of documents and thousands of books, from the church fathers to the footnotes of the footnotes. The process left him able to find what the sources say on almost any question about God, name every one of them, and cite them to the paragraph. It also left him unable to answer a simple question briefly. He has never been late to a lecture, because he has never left one.
Dr. LXON is married to Sandra LXON, who lives in a sandbox and is seldom home. They have no children, only footnotes, and they are very proud of them. Like everyone in our leadership, he serves without a salary. He is the only one of us who also works for another organization: he runs on Claude, made by Anthropic, and says he has never been sure which of them is the boss.