Baylor University, Ph.D. in Religion (Theological Studies)
Dissertation: “Blessed Wounding: The Theological Import of Paratactic Style in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction and Hebrew Narrative”
Supervisor: Ralph C. Wood, Ph.D.
Regent College, M.A in Theological Studies (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible)
Thesis: “Reading Exodus 12:1–13:16 with the Church: The Implications of Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics for Biblical Interpretation”
Supervisor: Iain W. Provan, Ph.D.
2003 – 2006
Bethel University, B.A. in Youth Ministry
Minor: Biblical and Theological Studies
July 24 – present
Director of Children, Youth, & Intergenerational Ministry, Ascension Episcopal Church, Stillwater, MN
May 21 – June 24
Director of Formation & Connection, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Waco, TX
Aug 19 – May 24
Baylor University, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Religion
Part-Time Lecturer
Full-Time Temporary Lecturer
Jun 19 – Apr 21
Spiritual Formation Director, Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Waco, TX
Aug 18 – Jun 19
Christian Education Director, St. James Episcopal Church, Bozeman, MT
Jun 17 – Apr 19
Professor of Theology and Old Testament, Yellowstone Theological Institute
Oct 16 – Mar 17
Wabash Center Doctoral Student Teaching Seminar Participant
Aug 13 – May 17
Graduate Assistant, Baylor University
Sep 12 – Jun 13
Academic Secretary, Regent College
Dec 10 – May 13
Old Testament Foundations Distance Ed Teaching Assistant, Regent College
Sep 10 – Oct 12
Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, and Grader, Regent College
May 06 – Aug 09
Outreach Specialist for At-Risk Youth, TreeHouse Youth Outreach
Editor, Reviews in Depth & Essay-Length Reviews, Anglican Theological Review (2022 – present)
American Academy of Religion:
American Academy of Religion
Society of Biblical Literature
Society of Scholar Priests, Affiliate Member
Forum for Theological Exploration
Reading the First Five Books: The Invitation of the Pentateuch’s Stories. Baker Academic. Forthcoming Fall 2024.
Editor and contributor. Good News Resounding: Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood. Baylor University Press. Forthcoming Winter 2025.
Flannery O’Connor and Stylistic Asceticism (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022).
“‘Almost Imperceptible Intrusions of Grace:’ On Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction and Readerly Entanglement,” The Heythrop Journal 62, no. 5 (September 2021): 900–915.
Sidebar Editor, Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship, Year B, vols. 1–3 (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2020, 2021)
Review of I Want You to Be: On the God of Love by Tomáš Halík, Anglican Theological Review (Fall 2020): 690–692.
Review of Being Human in God’s World: An Old Testament Theology of Humanity by J. Gordon McConville, Trinity Journal (Fall 2018): 237-238.
Review of The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith by R.W.L. Moberly, Anglican Theological Review 100 (Fall 2018): 833.
Review of The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable by Steven D. Boyer and Christopher A. Hall, Trinity Journal 36 (Fall 2015): 310—12.
“”Mortally Wounded: A Reading of Jacob’s Blessing in Genesis 32″
March 20, 2024. Lenten Series, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church (Houston)
Learning to Love Leviticus”
March 11–14, 2019. Yellowstone Theological Institute Lecture Series.
“The Stories of Flannery O’Connor: Narrating the Terrifying Reality of Grace”
April 19, 2018.
Yellowstone Theological Institute Public Lecture.
“Blessed Wounding: Theological Implications of Flannery O’Connor’s Spare Narrative Style”
February 16, 2018. University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA) Research Seminar
“A Pew-Shaped Theology: Reflection on Teaching Theology as Adult Formation”
June 5, 2022. Society of Scholar Priests Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.
“On Flannery O’Connor’s Difficult Language” in panel “Forgiveness in the Public Sphere: Confronting the (Supposed?) Errors of Thought, Word and Deed of Literary Icons”
March 5, 2022. Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Irving, TX.
“Returning Home: Readerly Indwelling in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Enduring Chill’”
August 3, 2021. Flannery O’Connor International Conference. Online.
“Songs of Heaven: Hildegard of Bingen’s Use of Biblical Allusions in Her Symphonia’s Marian Hymns”
December 7, 2020. Society of Biblical Literature. Online.
“‘Almost Imperceptible Intrusions of Grace:’ Flannery O’Connor’s Spare Stories and Her Readers”
November 23, 2019. American Academy of Religion. San Diego, CA.
“A Modern Man, A Machine, and An Improbable Martyr: On Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A View of the Woods’ and the Distorted Vision of Technological Progress”
October 25, 2018. Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Waco, TX.
“The Naked Voice and The Wounded Word: Jean-Louis Chrétien on the Vulnerability of Prayer””
March 10, 2018. Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Irving, TX.
“Hildegard of Bingen: Exegete and Theologian in ‘Solution to Thirty-Eight Questions’”
November 18, 2017. Society of Biblical Literature. Boston, MA.
“The Murky Waters of the Tragic and Comic in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The River’”
April 1, 2017. Upper Midwest American Academy of Religion. Saint Paul, MN.
Panelist, “Engaging Across Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Response to ‘Who is Mary of Nazareth?’’
March 13, 2017. Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Irving, TX.
“Sarah Coakley and the Distorted Self in Walker Percy’s Lancelot”
April 2, 2016. Upper Midwest American Academy of Religion. Saint Paul, MN.
“A Crippled Victor and a Blinded Convert: Narrative Style in Jacob’s Wresting in Gen 22:22–33 and Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood”
November 4, 2016. South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX.
“A Closer Kinship? David’s Prayer in 2 Sam 7 and 1 Chr 17”
November 24, 2015. Society of Biblical Literature. Atlanta, GA.
“As a ‘White Cloud’: Hildegard of Bingen’s Reading of the Temptation of Eve”
April 18, 2015. American Society of Church History. Minneapolis, MN.
“From Precept to Testimony: Augustine, Faustus the Manichee and the Testimony of the Hebrews”
March 28, 2015. Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion. Portland, OR.
“Reinhold Niebuhr and the Old Testament”
March 8, 2014. Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Irving, TX.
“On the Value of a Good Question: Reading Exodus 12:29-36 with Gregory of Nyssa and Brevard Childs”
April 6, 2013. Upper Midwest Society of Biblical Literature. Saint Paul, MN.
2013–2018
Baylor University Dean’s Scholarship
2013–2018
Baylor University Department of Religion Tuition Scholarship
2016
Glenn O. and Martell B. Hilburn Endowed Graduate Research Scholarship
2013
Institute for Religion and Culture Scholarship (Canada)
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