Education history
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2013
- M.A., Philosophy, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2010
- Th.M., Interdisciplinary Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2007
- M.C.S., New Testament Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005
- B.A., Religion and Music, Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, 1998
Selected works
- Editor (with co-editor Steven Bouma-Prediger), Ecoflourishing and Virtue: Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines. Series: New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Routledge, 2023.
- “In the brackets of wilderness: forming vital spiritual communities of reflection, attention, and communion in the Sierra.” In Susan Power Bratton, Stephanie Boddie and Ibrahim Ozdemir, eds., Handbook on Religion and the Environment, 337-356 (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026).
- "Pilgrimage of the Lost Self: Malaise, Sacramental Signs, and Intersubjectivity in Walker Percy’s The Second Coming" Pacific Journal (2016)
- “Getting into the Game of Tradition-Constituted Moral Inquiry: Does MacIntyre’s Particularism Offer a Rational Way In?” International Philosophical Quarterly, March 2014
- "Poetic Representation and Existential Time: On Kierkegaard's Reduction of Literary Art to Subjective Communication," History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 30, no.3, July 2013
- "Passionate Epistemology: Kierkegaard on Skepticism, Approximate Knowledge, and Higher Existential Truth," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 40 no.1, 2013
- "Transformation in the Wasteland? Remembrance, Naming and Charitable Action in The Road," Film and Philosophy vol. 17, 2013
- "Walker Percy's 'Theory of Man' and the Elimination of Virtue," In Peter Lawler and Brian Smith (eds.) A Political Companion to Walker Percy. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors, Patrick Deneen (ed.) University of Kentucky Press, 2013
- "Kierkegaard and Confucius: Congruence on relational selfhood, harmonious agency, and ethical relation to others," First International Conference on Kierkegaard and Chinese Culture, Hong Kong, May 2013
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