Day Job
There’s no question in my mind that I’ve been oddly fortunate to have received the education that I have and to be able to serve as a professor. (Hear the irony intended in the use of “day job.”) I am the product of privilege, and I hope to use that privilege for good.
I currently serve at Wartburg Theological Seminary, a graduate school whose focus is forming leaders for public ministry primarily in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This is the Christian denomination in which I am also ordained as a pastor – a minister of Word and Sacrament.
My academic field is Old Testament, sometimes called Hebrew Bible. I earned a PhD from the University of St Andrews – a lovely and dear place, situated on the North Sea in the Kingdom of Fife. Before that I managed to complete a Master of Divinity from Wartburg Seminary, where I know serve, and before that a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with minors in Russian and Greek from Concordia College.
While Old Testament is my root field of study, I spent the first fifteen years teaching homiletics. I learnt a great deal over this time about how to read scripture theologically. As of July 2022, I welcomed a shift in my teaching responsibilities now serving full-time as Professor of Biblical Interpretation.
My recent book, Freedom & Imagination: Trusting Christ in an Age of Bad Faith, is an attempt to capture some of what I’ve learnt regarding while serving as a biblical theologian who stewarded the formation of preachers of the gospel. While the book does address preaching, I consider it more a work of apologetics, entering and pushing the contemporary conversation about what the heart of Christianity is and how the individual participates in the life of the Triune God.
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