Education

  • PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto
  • MPhil, Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, University of St. Andrews
  • ThM, MDiv, Union-PSCE (now Union Presbyterian Seminary)
  • BA, magna cum laude, Virginia Wesleyan College (now Virginia Wesleyan University)

Professional Experience

  • Digital Content Producer, Society of Christian Ethics, 2020–present
  • Children’s Ministry Coordinator, First Presbyterian Church, St. Cloud, 2018–19
  • Managing Editor, Liturgical Press, 2011–17
  • Editor, Speaking of Students, Newsletter of the Graduate Student Committee, American Academy of Religion, 2010–11
  • Editorial Assistant, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 2010
  • IT Systems Assistant, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 2008–10
  • Bookseller, Barnes & Noble, 2006–8
  • Associate Editor, Lectionary Homiletics, 2001–5
  • Assistant Pastor, Providence Presbyterian Church, Gum Spring, VA, 2000–2001

Teaching Gigs

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Lynchburg, Spring 2020 (Old Testament [writing intensive])
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, 2017–19 (Core First-Year Theology)
  • Adjunct Instructor of Theology, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, 2015–16 (Core First-Year Theology)
  • Teaching Assistant, Knox College, University of Toronto, 2010 (Biblical Hermeneutics)
  • Teaching Assistant, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 2009–10 (Church History; Theology)
  • Instructor, Centre for Lay Education, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 2009 (Liturgical Arts)
  • Tutor, St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, 2005–6 (World Religions; Christian Ethics)

Select Papers & Presentations

  • “White Supremacy and Christian Faith.” Powhatan Anti-Racism Coalition, Powhatan County Public Library, Powhatan, VA, November 5, 2021.
  • “Developing Information Literacy for Interdisciplinary Engagement: A Heuristic Device for the Core Course in Religion.” American Academy of Religion Upper Midwest Regional Conference. University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, April 6, 2019.
  • “Martin Luther King Jr. as a Student of Theology.” Martin Luther King Jr. Day Teach-In, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, January 15, 2018.
  • “Copyright or Copywrong? How Gutenberg’s Printing Press Continues to Spark Church Battles.” Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk, VA, November 16, 2017.
  • “Barth, Mozart, and St. Benedict: Lessons in Listening with the Ear of the Heart.” Institute for Theological and Interdisciplinary Studies. Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, October 27, 2017.
  • “Karl Barth’s Eschatological Interpretation of Conscience and the Teleological Recovery of Voluntarism.” American Academy of Religion Upper Midwest Regional Conference. Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN, April 1, 2017.
  • “Conscience and Command: Ethical Voluntarism in John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Karl Barth.” Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN, December 1, 2016.
  • “Christ as True Music: Charles Wesley and Joseph Ratzinger on Musical Perfection.” Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives. Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, September 3, 2011.
  • “The Wesleyan Transformation of the Public Sphere: Musical and Moral Perfection in Early Methodism.” Canadian Wesley Studies Symposium. Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, March 15, 2011.

Awards

  • Alcuin and Clemens Library Information Literacy Faculty Award, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, 2018
  • Colin Gunton Memorial Essay Prize, Society for the Study of Theology, 2016