Dr. Larsen is an ordained United Methodist minister and religious educator.  He earned his doctorate at the Claremont School of Theology and is an instructor there in Religious Education in the summers.  Jerry is on the staff of the Los Altos United Methodist Church in Long Beach California as the Minister of Religious Education.

The CSRB was established in 1995 as an forum for persons interested in Neuro-science as it relates to the experience and practice of religion and spiritual communities.

Early in 2000, Dr Larsen will have a book published by Paulist Press entitled "Religious Education and The Brain."