Prior to working for TRT, he worked for a small non-profit, and before that, as a marketing manager for Universal Forest Products, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company based in Grand Rapids, MI. Dr. Brewer received his Ph.D. in Divinity from the University of St. Andrews with a thesis on natural theology and the arts. He is the editor or co-editor of six volumes, and has published numerous essays on the Anglican theologians Howard E. Root and David Brown, the Irish Catholic philosopher William Desmond, and the contemporary American artist Jonathan Borofsky. He is the lead program officer on the Aesthetic Cognitivism program theme.