Dr. Gregory J. Laughery is an American/Swiss theologian. For the past twenty years he has been associated with L'abri Fellowship and is currently living and teaching at L'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland.
Laughery was born in San Francisco, California. His nominally Catholic and then Lutheran family lived in an apartment just around the corner from the soon to become famous Haight-Ashbury district. In the days of 1952, this was a quiet, fairly traditional, racially mixed, family neighborhood, only to explode later in the 1960s to a national and international phenomenon, where thousands of young people gathered to protest the Vietnam war and to live in community.
Eventually making his way to Europe in 1980, Laughery studied with Dr. Francis Schaeffer at Swiss L’Abri Fellowship, before going on to take a theology degree at the London School of Theology, a license and a specialization diploma in New Testament at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a PhD at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His dissertation Living Hermeneutics in Motion: An Analysis and Evaluation of Paul Ricoeur's Contribution to Biblical Hermeneutics received the highest honors. He has continued to publish in the field of biblical hermeneutics and other areas of interest, and has been particularly lauded for his work on the French philosopher/theologian Paul Ricoeur and for his writings on Christian spirituality.
Laughery has written extensively in recent years, publishing books centered around living Christian spirituality based around the students he has encountered at L'Abri Fellowship. Ranging from the pastoral Living Spirituality to the hermeneutical Living Apocalypse, Laughery works closely with Destinee Media to produce his works.