New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Education

• Ph.D. candidate, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Dissertation: "Doctrinal Development as Hermeneutical Phenomenon"
• Th.M., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (2009)
• M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (2008)
• B.A., Williams Baptist College (2005)

Teaching Experience

• Instructor of Theology, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (2010-Present)

Teaching Specializations

• Systematic Theology
• Philosophy of Religion
• Cult Theology
• World Religions
• Philosophical Hermeneutics
• Apologetics

Ministry Experience

• Supply preacher
• Apologetics lecturer
• Revival Evangelist
• Conference Speaker
• Camp Speaker
• Associate Pastor, Ames Blvd. Baptist Church (2011-Present)
• Deacon, Calvary Baptist Church (2010-2011)
• Interim Pastor, Bowman Baptist Church (2005-2006)
• Collegiate Ministry Intern, Walnut Street Baptist Church Jonesboro, AR (2002-2005)
• Ordained, Walnut Street Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR (2006)
• Licensed, Walnut Street Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR (2002)

Presentations

• Presenter, "Evangelicals and Gadamerian Hermeneutics: Promises and Perils," Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, San Francisco, November 16, 2011
• Panel Speaker, "How Do Culture and Practical Theology Interact?" National Youth Workers Conference, Atlanta, November 20, 2011
• Panel Speaker, "What Does it Mean to Be a Person?" National Youth Workers Conference, Atlanta, November 19, 2011
• Panel Respondent to J. Matthew Pinson, "Thomas Grantham's Theology of the Atonement and Justification," Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry Special Event, February 25, 2011
• Presenter, “Pulp Gospels and Pop Theology: Assessing Christology and Popular Piety in Second- and Third-Century Apocryphal Gospel Traditions,” Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, February 26, 2010
• Presenter, "Apocryphal Gospel Traditions," Institute of Christian Apologetics, January 2010
• Presenter, “Get Real, Professor Hick: Evaluating the ‘Critical Realism’ of John Hick,” Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, New Orleans, November 20, 2009
• Presenter, “‘Through Whom He also made the Aeons and Everything’: Uncovering Arius’s Anthropocentric Cosmology,” Special Event, Evangelical Philosophical Society, New Orleans, March 27, 2009
• “The Me Delusion: Lessons Learned from Heretics,” chapel address, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, April 23, 2008
• “Is there a Value in a Christian Liberal Arts Education?” Arkansas Baptist State Convention Annual Meeting, November 1, 2005

Memberships

• Evangelical Theological Society
• Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Religious Honors Society
• Board of Trustees, Watchman Fellowship, Inc.

Articles

"Eckhart Tolle," for the Watchman Fellowship Profile Notebook (Arlington, TX: Watchman Fellowship, 2008). 

Books

Defending the Faith, with co-editor Robert B. Stewart. Forthcoming.

Reviews

Review of Oakman, Douglas E. Jesus and the Peasants (Cascade Books, 2008) in The Journal for Baptist Theology & Ministry 6.2 (Fall 2009).

Review of John D. Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (Baker, 2007) in The Journal for Baptist Theology & Ministry 6.1 (Spring 2009).

Awards and Honors

• The Broadman & Holman Seminarian Award, 2008
• Thru the Bible Communicator of the Year Award, 2008
• The Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry Student Fellowship 2005-2010
• Presented "Baptists & Liberal Arts Education" at the Arkansas State Baptist Convention, November 2005.
• Recipient of Williams' H.L. Waters Award of Religion, April 2005
• Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities