writing

I’ve always enjoyed writing. From my early days of writing & illustrating books for our local Young Authors Conferences, to writing creative essays in college, it’s always been something that I’ve enjoyed. Below you’ll find some things that I’ve written that I wanted to share with you. Also, if you are interested in contacting me to submit something to be published, please email me.

Published Work

  • The Church that Doesn’t Exist“: Published in the online version of Relevant Magazine (March 2006)
  • “Presbymergent: The Story of One Mainliner’s Quest to Be a Loyal Radical” | pdf
    Published in “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope“, eds. Tony Jones & Doug Pagitt. The book has essays from a variety of people involved in the Emergent conversation.

Academic Essays

  • The Open View of God: God and God’s Co-(re)creators Living in the Dynamic Dialectic of Relationality | pdf
  • Sexual Revelation: Body Theology in Conversation with H. Richard Niebuhr and Implications for Sexual Ethics | pdf
  • Pneumatology as a Theological Foundation for Youth Ministry in the 21st Century | pdf
  • Emergent Postmoderns: Who are they and What is their Biblical Hermeneutic | pdf
  • Christian-Muslim Interfaith Dialogue: A Look at the Doctrine of God and it’s Role in the Interfaith Dialogue Between Christians and Muslims | pdf
  • Apo(cata)phatic Interplay: An Analysis of the Role of Apophatic Theology and the Interplay Between Apophatic and Cataphatic Theologies in Pseudo-Dionysius’ Mystical Theology | pdf
  • A Theology of Sin: Arguing For a More Social/Communal Understanding of Sin in America | pdf

Sermons

  • “Waiting for the Magic”
    2 Peter 3.8-15a | pdf
  • “Partnering with God”
    James 1.19-25 | pdf
  • “A Condemnation of Traditional Church, Or…”
    Matthew 3.1-12 | pdf
  • “Streams in the Wasteland…”
    Isaiah 43.15-19 | pdf
  • “The Divine Screw-Job”
    Genesis 32.22-32 | pdf
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