The Trinity has been well described as a “meta-doctrine”: the widest, and actually unbounded, field of Christian study. My writing, teaching, and preaching are animated, however imperfectly, by love for the God named by this doctrine: the God of total goodness communicated in the person of Jesus Christ.

I’ve engaged figures like Bonaventure (in Pro Ecclesia), Jean-Louis Chrétien (in Modern Theology), and Augustine (also Pro Ecclesia). See also many popular articles in ministrymatters.com, and more recent ones in Christianity Today and Firebrand. Currently researching Trinity & reason in relation to 13th and 14th century Franciscans and Thomistic theology.

You can learn more about my scholarship (and even read a little of it) at my Academia page.

Ph.D., Theology, Boston College (2018); M.Div., Duke Divinity School (2007); B.A., English, UT Austin (2002). I serve as Pastor at First Methodist Church of Lockhart, TX, and have taught at St. Edward's University (Austin, TX) and St. Mary's University (San Antonio, TX).

Contact me about speaking, teaching, writing/editing projects, or questions via the form below.

Some of my favorite teaching & speaking & writing topics include:

• Trinity: the meaningfulness, reasonableness, history, and total spiritual relevance of the Christian doctrine of God.

• Does God Exist? Human experience, reason, and the reality of God

• St. Bonaventure’s trinitarian theology and metaphysics

• Hugh of St. Victor and the form of human and cosmic transformation in Jesus Christ’s dying, burial, and rising

• St. Augustine’s trinitarian spirituality, theology, & apologetics

• 12th century Victorine and 13th century Franciscan theology

• Mystics and Metaphysicians: knowing God by faith & reason

• Christian contemplative practice

• Jean-Louis Chrétien’s “Franciscan” phenomenology of Christ, beauty, & praise

• Christ and “ecological conversion” in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si'

• the Latin Dionysian mystical tradition

• things related to Jesus & the Bible :-)