While I currently serve vocationally as a theologian, the beating heart of my ministry is to serve the church as we together participate in God’s mission. In my theological work, I desire to help Christians grow in clarity of the Gospel and the ability to effectively communicate it to one another and the world.
In addition to my work as a Research Associate at UTC, I currently serve as Assistant Professor of Christian Thought at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina in the United States, where I also serve at the Director of the ThM program and Associate Director of the PhD program. A hold a BS in English Education from The University of Georgia, an MA Intercultural Studies and a PhD in Theological Studies: Systematic Theology both from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
My dissertation work focused on the significance of the church in T. F. Torrance’s theological epistemology. While I’m not Torranceian, per se, working in Torrance’s theology taught me how to do dogmatic theology in such a way that essentially ties to the being and ministry of the Body of Christ. Naturally then, as a convictional Baptist, the next step in my academic work has been to explore how dogmatic theology might be considered and expressed from within my own ecclesial tradition. This includes the work of retrieval which I do teetering between the early church fathers and early Baptist theologians. I have articles forthcoming in the Southeastern Theological Review and the Criswell Journal of Theology working toward the Baptist dogmatic theology in conversation with Irenaeus and John Gill. I also have a forthcoming edited volume with B&H Academic in partnership with 20 other Baptist theologians in America called Confessing Christ: An Introduction to Baptist Dogmatics and am co-authoring a Baptist Dogmatic textbook with Steven A. McKinion, also with B&H Academic. At a popular level, I have written for Zondervan, LifeWay Women, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today on various topics.