Education
- Ph.D., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (Dept. of Comparative Literature)
- M.A.T.S., Bethel Theological Seminary, San Diego, CA
- M.F.A., Perelandra College, Licensed, Online Master鈥檚 in Writing Program
- M.A., New College of California, San Francisco, CA
- B.A., Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Courses Taught
- College Composition -- WRI1010
- College Composition: Research -- WRI1016
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
- A Literary Guide to the Bible, Rowman & Littlefield Publisher (under contract)
- 鈥淒ear World Religions 101 Professor鈥�, Religion & Education, Spring 2021
- 鈥淭o Breed or Not To Breed: The Last Woman鈥檚 Bioethics of Sustainability in Facing Extinction,鈥� Confluence, April 2020
- 鈥淢rs. Dalloway and the Critics,鈥� chapter in Critical Insights: Mrs. Dalloway, Salem Press, 2011
- 鈥淒eath by Ethanol: Fueling the American Dream (Confessions of a Sugar Addict),鈥� LORE: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Fall 2009
- Editor, Literature and Spirituality, Longman Publishers/Pearson Education, Spring 2009
- Editor, Rescuing the Future: A Philosophical Inquiry, by Benedict Freedman, Pryor Pettingill, Winter 2008
- Editor, A Philosophical Examination of Tillich鈥檚 Theory of Symbolic Meaning, by Truman Grant Madsen, Harvard University Press, Winter 2008
- 鈥淭hompson鈥檚 The Hound of Heaven in Lowry鈥檚 Under the Volcano,鈥� The Explicator, Spring 2007
- 鈥淐larissa and Cl茅o (En)dur茅e Suicidal Time in Virginia Woolf鈥檚 Mrs. Dalloway and Agn猫s Varda鈥檚 Cl茅o de 5 脿 7,鈥� Comparative Literature Studies, Fall 2007
- Co-Author, Holy Scrolls: The Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls (graphic novel), LampPost Publications, 2007
- Co-Author, What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? Eerdmans Publishing, Spring 2007
- Author, Wipe Out: A True Story of Winning (David Walden鈥檚 memoir), DaBoop Pub., 2006
- 鈥淎bsolutamente necesario: The Express Train in Malcolm Lowry鈥檚 Under the Volcano, Chapter 12,鈥� Modernism/modernity 12.2 (Summer 2005)
- 鈥淗allowed Ground: Sangre de Cristo in Willa Cather鈥檚 Death Comes for the Archbishop鈥� Christianity & Literature (Spring 2003),
- Reprinted in Novels for Students, vol. 19, The Gale Group (July 2004)
- Editor, On Human Nature: A Symposium at the Jerusalem Center, Pryor Pettingill (2004)
- Editor, David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Bible in Its World), by Baruch Halpern, Eerdmans (2003)
- Editor, Proto-Luke: An Alternative Literary Hypothesis to Q, by Thomas Brodie, Dominican Biblical Centre (2002)