I work on staff at Tri-Cities Baptist Church in Gray, TN, as well as on the Global Engagement team at Send Network. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Apologetics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. And I live in East Tennessee with my wife and our two kids.

If you’ve never heard the whole gospel before, you can read that here.

Here’s a listing of my academic papers and presentations.

Papers

Story as Experimentum Crucis: Comparing the Fiction of C. S. Lewis and Jean-Paul Sartre (read)

The Weight of Story: How a Conflict Thesis forms the Basis of Henry Morris’s Hermeneutic (read)

A Narrative Analysis: Romans 5:12–21 as Transition in Paul’s Story in Romans (read)

How Story Informs our Apologetics for the Problems from Evil (read)

Metaphysical Basis for Eleonore Stump’s Narrative Defense (read)

Assessing Joseph Smith’s First Vision (read)

Why Should I Believe Joseph? (read)

A Postmortem Opportunity? (read)

Presentations

Mar 2025
PhD seminar |“4 Apologetic Questions in Calvin’s Institutes, First Book” Presentation Text and Notes here.

Feb 2024
Evangelical Philosophical Society SE Regional, Taccoa Falls, GA | “How Story Informs our Apologetics: A Look at the Problem from Evil” Presented this paper.

Jan 2024
Defend Conference, New Orleans, LA | “How Story Informs our Apologetics: A Look at the Problem from Evil” Presented this paper.

Oct 2023
People of the Word Conference, Meridian, MS | “When & Why People Listen: The Power of Using Story in Apologetics”

Oct 2023
People of the Word Conference, Meridian, MS | “Questioning Apologetics: An Apologetic Method Aimed Toward Discipleship”

Feb 2023
Evangelical Theological Society SE Regional, Columbia, SC | “Is James Beilby’s Postmortem Opportunity a Helpful Apologetic Tool?” Presented an abridged version of this paper.

Book Reviews

Interpretation of Religion by John Hick (read)

The Evidential Argument from Evil Edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder (read)

Position Papers

What of Those Who Never Hear? (read)

Philosophical Hermeneutics (read)

Minimal Facts, the Resurrection, and Evangelism (read)

On the Problems from Evil (read)

Science and Religion (read)

I am a currently a member of Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS).

A sampling of my popular writing (both fiction and nonfiction).

Fiction

A novel series I wrote, in the genre of thriller. Learn more on my fiction website (here).

Nonfiction

On Fiction

Book Review: Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (read)

The (Real) Golden Chair (read)

Book Review: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond (read)

Business Articles
“The 5 (Business) Elements of Gamification” (read)

“Are You on the Path to Disrupting Your Industry?” (read)

“How to Quit Competing for Customers” (read)

“Three Strategiest to Make Your Business Blue Ocean” (read)

“How to Transfer Your Passion to Your Employees” (read)

“The 5-Step Path to Purchasing” (read)

Journalism articles
“‘The Field is Ripe’ for Church Planting in Colombia” (read)

“The Dead-Preachers Society” published in Vision Magazine (read)

“Doctor of Music Arts Program Sees Amazing Growth” published in Vision Magazine (read)

Here are some recent pictures as I build my portfolio. Click below to see them.