Our people: Hometown teacher

Ask Logan Brown of Portales exactly who he is, he immediately speaks of being born and raised in Portales, schooled in Portales, getting his higher education in Portales, being employed in Portales with he and his wife raising their four children in Portales.

His parents were born and raised in Portales as well.

The News learned more about this science teacher who has students statewide when we spoke with him Wednesday afternoon.

Q: What is the story of you and Portales?

A: I was born in Clovis because the Portales hospital did not have a delivery facility at the time. After I was born I was brought home to Portales.

I am Portales high school class of 2006. I played tennis all four years of high school. My senior year I qualified for state but only made it to first or second round.

My bachelor's degree from Eastern New Mexico University is in biology with an emphasis in pre-med. I minored in chemistry and religion.

My master's degree from ENMU is in education with an emphasis in secondary education.

Q: Tell us about your family.

A: I met my wife Bethany in college. She's from Dexter. We've been married 17 years.

We have four children, two boys and two girls, from 5 to 16 years old.

Q: Tell us about your career.

A: I taught science and coached tennis and soccer in Portales for about seven years.

For the past five years I've been teaching at an online virtual school teaching high school science.

It's a New Mexico virtual school. Students and teachers are all over the state.

It's a public charter school.

Typically I have around 200 students in a semester or school year.

Q: As a science teacher what are your thoughts on science in general?

A: My expertise has always been in the life sciences, biology, microbiology, and such.

I've always been fascinated by the complexity of living organisms, especially the human body.

I've always been passionate about embryology. It helps me appreciate life in the womb. My fascination with embryology coincides with my religious views very well.

Q: You're involved with local and state politics. Why the interest?

A: Politics has always interested me, but I really didn't get involved until Roe v. Wade was overturned and the abortion mills began moving from Texas into New Mexico.

There's a myth, called the myth of neutrality.

Politics, specifically laws, are governing peoples behaviors so someone gets to decide laws.

Laws are legislating morality because they are regulating behavior so then the question becomes which behaviors does society decide are right and which behaviors society decides are wrong.

No one is neutral.

I'm pretty honest about what my presuppositions are. I have a biblical worldview.

My morality and ethics come from God's law.

Q: Do you have a favorite place you like to visit?

A: We've enjoyed visiting Moscow, Idaho. They have a really good reformed Christian community. People are friendly, a lot of like-minded people are there, they have shared values.

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: Homemade popcorn. You have to have good quality popcorn like organic Amish popcorn. Air pop it, then mix in butter, coconut oil and salt.

Q: Do you have a favorite saying or favorite verse of Scripture?

A: First I want to say Christ is Lord.

Whether you bow the knee here, on this side of death, or on the other side.

This comes from Philippians 2:10-11: "At the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on Earth and under the Earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

My favorite Scripture is from Proverbs 24:11: "Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter."