In addition to being the Senior Pastor at Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Connecticut, Cliffe is the host and founder of Give Me an Answer. Cliffe loves to converse with skeptics and truth-seekers to explore the tenants of Christianity at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has held open air discussions at a wide range of schools such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, the Universities of Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, Hawaii, Washington and UCLA.

As an apologist for the Gospel, he has over 899,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and a combined following of more than two million across TikTok and Instagram.

Born in New York City and educated at Davidson College in North Carolina, Cliffe later graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, just outside of Boston. He began working with Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and various churches around the country upon his graduation from seminary in 1979. He has been the Senior Pastor at Grace Community Church since it began in 2001.

 Cliffe is happily married to his best friend, Sharon. They have three children, and six granddaughters.