Author, Theologian & Professor of Religious Studies

Primary Research Focus:

Polarization in Religion

What are the values at the heart of our religious disagreements? Two cognitive models explain our political and doctrinal differences.

Open Theism

Is God open to and influenced by what creatures do? Is the future open or determined? Does God know with certainty what we will do in the future?

Cognitive Linguistics

How do language and culture play a role in the way we understand the Bible, morality, and God?

Religious Pluralism & Hell

What about the salvation of non-Christians? Does hell mean suffering forever or is it redemptive?

The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence

No Other Name: An Investigation into the Destiny of the Unevangelized

“In creating us the divine intention was that we would come to experience the triune love and respond to it with love of our own and freely come to collaborate with God towards the achievement of God’s goals.”

Is God "outside" of time?

Open Theism

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February 26, 2023

To say that God is "outside" of time depends on the metaphor that time is a container but this is not the way we should understand time.

Video Introduction to Open Theism

Open Theism

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February 26, 2023

Jazz is a good illustration of what God's relationship to us is like.

Simple Foreknowledge is Useless for Providence

Open Theism

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October 10, 2022

Simple foreknowledge has catastrophic problems and the attempts to resuscitate it have failed. It is time to move on and affirm either dynamic omniscience, middle knowledge, or theological determinism.