D.Min. · J.D. · M.Div.
Theologian · Educator · Army Reserve Chaplain
I study how people develop judgment, moral agency, and responsibility—and how institutions shape those capacities in a changing technological world.
My work brings practical theology, law, leadership, and AI ethics into conversation with the lived demands of teaching, ministry, and institutional decision-making.
What are people learning to become through the practices, technologies, and institutions they inhabit?
That question connects my work on Christian formation, public responsibility, attention, and artificial intelligence. I examine how institutions can support the exercise of human judgment and remain answerable for the consequences of their decisions.
A developing research and applied framework examining personhood, answerability, formation, and presence in AI-mediated institutional life. It asks what human capacities a practice should develop and how AI changes their exercise.
Read the research prospectus ↗An inquiry into the difference between recognizable religious performance and lived formation, alongside the ways attention, distraction, and embodied relationships shape moral and spiritual life.
Read the attention paper ↗A field of inquiry connecting legal reasoning, the Black Church’s ethical tradition, leadership, and the obligations institutions bear toward the people affected by their decisions.
View the research statement ↗Explore a manuscript in preparation, a research prospectus, and a full writing sample on attention. The manuscript is available by request; the prospectus and writing sample are linked below.
Manuscript in preparation
Intended journal: Practical Theology
Compliance Discipleship and the Limits of Artificial Imitation
Examines what artificial imitation reveals about religious performance and human transformation. The argument develops “compliance discipleship” as a category for the appearance of faith without the relational demands of repentance, accountability, and embodied presence.
“Compliance discipleship” is a concept developed within this work.
Request the manuscript by email →Book-length research program
Uses AI as a mirror for questions about human identity, agency, and formation. The prospectus introduces the theological research program underlying an expanding body of institutional and educational work.
Read the ReHuman prospectus ↗Available for review
Argues that the attention economy is a pastoral-theological problem with consequences for prayer, moral agency, and care. Drawing on Augustine, Simone Weil, and Thomas Merton, the essay develops attention as a discipline cultivated in community.
Read the paper ↗Books for wider audiences. InnerShift: Spiritual Care in the Age of Distraction (2014) addresses attention, formation, and human connection. Just Sayin’ (2025) explores relational clarity, identity, wisdom, and ethical decision-making. Together, they extend the work of formation beyond academic audiences.
Explore InnerShift360 ↗International study includes South Africa and Bath, England. My professional practice includes service as a U.S. Army Reserve chaplain since 2021, ordained ministry, entrepreneurship, and AI and automation consulting. The academic CV provides the fuller record of education and experience.
Download the full CV ↓My teaching approach brings close reading, substantive writing, and applied cases together so learners can explain and defend their decisions.
Legal reasoning, theological reflection, chaplaincy, and institutional practice inform the cases I bring to learning. The materials below allow reviewers to examine course design and educational approach.
Recurring Guest Instructor. Taught entrepreneurialism through legal responsibility, client value, venture development, and ethical decision-making in case-centered discussions.
Adult Teacher & Preacher. Taught biblical studies, theology, Christian ethics, and spiritual formation, connecting interpretation with lived moral and vocational questions.
A sample graduate-level syllabus connecting theological inquiry with questions of AI and moral responsibility. Offered for review as a curriculum artifact.
Examine the sample syllabus ↗Cases before abstractions; writing as a way of thinking; research with an audience; and AI use that preserves the learner’s responsibility for reasoning. The portfolio brings together teaching philosophy and supporting materials.
Download the faculty portfolio ↓These areas describe teaching interests and preparation. See the CV for teaching and professional experience.
My applied work connects the human purposes of an institution with the decisions, workflows, and learning experiences through which those purposes are pursued.
A ReHuman approach to reviewing AI use in learning: identify the human capacity an activity should form; ask whether AI strengthens, bypasses, or replaces its exercise; then decide what to preserve, redesign, or release.
Explore the research foundation ↗Through ISBS and ReHuman, I connect workflow analysis and AI opportunities with questions about where judgment, accountability, and meaningful human participation must remain.
Discuss an institutional question ↗Army Reserve chaplaincy and ministry ground my work in lived questions of trust, care, grief, responsibility, and leadership. These settings inform how I approach ethical reasoning and human formation.
Download professional record ↓Founder & Managing Attorney, Phoenix. Led a private practice involving research, advocacy, negotiation, client counseling, confidentiality, and professional ethics. That experience informs my work on evidence, accountability, and institutional judgment.
Founder & Principal. Led real-estate investment ventures across acquisitions, financing, renovations, project budgets, negotiations, and stakeholder coordination, bringing operational experience to questions of responsible leadership.
For appointments, begin with the CV and portfolio. For scholarly conversation, start with the writing sample and research statement. The updated CV and portfolio download as PDFs. Other linked documents open in a new tab.
I welcome conversations about faculty appointments, research collaboration, curriculum development, and the human questions surrounding institutional AI adoption.
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