Curriculum Vitae (Click for PDF)

Ongoing Projects

• Contextual theology and localized ministry
• Metaregions of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, especially the Great Lakes & Strategies for Church Multiplication and Compassionate Ministries
  

• Symbolism of Native American Rock Art

• Appalachian Social and Religious Context

Published Papers

• “Ordination and Power Relations: A Cultural Analysis from the Ritual Theory of Practice.”  Wesleyan Theological Journal. Fall 2014. Print.
• "Undergraduate Perceptions of Vocational Calling into Missions and Ministry." Missiology: An International Journal. Vol. 41 No. 1. (January 2013): 87-96. Print.
• "Popular Notions of the Missionary Task in a Post-Missionary Era: A Hopeful Response to the Image of Missionaries Depicted in 20th Century Novels." Missiology: An International Review. Vol. 36 No. 2. (April 2008): 245-256. Print.

• “The Influence of Personalism on the Theology and Education of H. Orton Wiley.” Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall 2006): 142-160. Print
• "H. Orton Wiley--Dominant Images from the Life of a Holiness Educator." Wesleyan Theological Journal. (Fall 2004). Print.

• "The Future Reach of Africa's Missionary Pastors." Africa Speaks: An Anthology of the Africa Nazarene Theology Conference.  Ed. Linda Braaten. Johannesburg, South Africa: Africa Nazarene Publications, 2004. pp. 199-202. Print & Web.

• "Liberal arts and the priories of Nazarene higher education." Didache: Journal for Faithful Teaching. Vol. 2 No. 1 (June 2002). Web.

Presentations

• "Nazarene Organic Church Network." Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA. July 2014.
• "Vocational Calling Among University Students." Youth and Mission Colloquium. American Missiology Society, Techny Towers, Chicago, IL. June 2012.
  
• "Ministering to Muslims in the Neighborhood." M11 Conference, Louisville, KY. February 2011.
  
• "Bleeding Hearts and Bean Counters Working Together—Another Look at the Debate(s) about Holistic Mission and Managerial Missiology." Global Missiology Pre-Conference. De Bron Conference Center, The Netherlands. March 2007.

• With Edgar Baldeón. "Wisdom for Life for All--A Paradigm for Wesleyan Theological Education for the Whole Church." Global Theology Conference, DeBron Conference Center, The Netherlands. April 3, 2007.