“This holiday season prompts many of us to acquire, and offer, gifts for others. Yet, have you stopped to ponder the reason why ‘gift-giving’ is an integral part of this season? Our holiday ‘meditation,’ for our club, this week, will seek to address that traditional question.”

Dr. Macaulay was the Director for Alumni Development for Union Presbyterian Seminary from 2016 to 2024. Before returning to Richmond in 2016, he served as a pastor in congregations for thirty years. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Clay spent his boyhood in North Carolina, born in Mooresville, and grew up in Asheboro.

Clay has a daughter and a son who live and work in North Carolina and in Texas. With his family, Clay has served pastorates in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, Peoria, Illinois, and Weems, Virginia. He is a graduate of Davidson College (AB 1981), and Union Presbyterian Seminary (D.Min. 1985).

Clay’s interests include playing golf (though not very well!), walking, reading, viewing fine films, and following national and global news each day. He loves to travel, on occasion, and his favorite respite is a family mountain lake-house in upstate South Carolina.