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Publications
“Rules and Roles for Women: Vocation and Order in the Apostolic Fathers.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 22.4 (2018): 77-100.
“Reading Across Traditions: Comparing the Theological Anthropologies of Ramanuja and Augustine of Hippo.” Journal of Comparative Theology 5 (2015): 40-57.
Discerning Witnesses: First and Second Century Textual Studies in Christian Authority. Thesis. Ann Arbor: ProQuest UMI Publishing, 2014.
Book Reviews
Udo Schnelle, The First One Hundred Years of Christianity: An Introduction to Its History, Literature, and Developments, translated by James Thompson (Baker Academic, 2020), reviewed for Modern Reformation 29, 6 (2020): 58-61.
Jennifer Strawbridge, The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early Christian Writers (DeGruyter, 2015), reviewed for The Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 4, 1 (2017): 171-173.
John G. Gager, Who Made Earliest Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul (Columbia, 2015), reviewed for The Heythrop Journal 57, 4 (2016): 713.
Scott J. Hafemann, Paul’s Message and Ministry in Covenant Perspective: Selected Essays (Cascade, 2015), reviewed for The Heythrop Journal 57, 4 (2016): 717-718.
Roland Boer, The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel (WJKO, 2015), reviewed for Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59, 1 (2016): 148-150.
Paul Copan and Matt Flannagan, Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God (Baker, 2014), reviewed for Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58, 4 (2015): 818-20.

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Some Passing Thoughts on Baseball’s Hall of Fame
Twenty years ago, my dad and I passed an afternoon in Southern California by attending a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners. We are Chicago Cubs fans, so we were used to watching baseball played by a terrible team in a packed stadium. But in Oakland, we found the very opposite: a…
What I Read in 2022
Every year, I commit to reading as much and as widely as possible. And as a means of attempting to remember everything I’ve read and holding myself accountable to my reading goals, I track the books I’ve read each year. (Click here to see what I read in 2021) A couple of notes on this…
A Prayer during the Noise
Dear God,Speak gently in my silence.When the loud outer noises of my surroundingsand the loud inner noises of my fearskeep pulling me away from you,help me to trust that you are still thereeven when I am unable to hear you.Give me ears to listen to your small, soft voice saying:”Come to me, you who are…