Publications

Books

• Contributing Author, Experiencing the World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge, and Change (2026 edition), McGraw-Hill.

Articles/Essays

• “What’s wrong with [normative claims about the self and] morality? or, How can moral psychologists and philosophers get along?,” Syndicate (Wipf & Stock/Cascade Press), 2019.
• “To ‘let religion itself speak:’ Feuerbach and Religious Consciousness in Modern Culture."Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 14.2 (2015): 338-349.

Book Sections/Chapters

• “Death of God Theology.”Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Vol. I, ed. Charles H.Lippy and Peter W. Williams, (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010), 521-526.

Conference Papers/Presentations

• "Panel on Atheism vs. Theism in Feuerbach's Critiques of Religion”, Invited Respondent by American Academy of Religion, Northeast Meeting at Princeton Theological Seminary, 2025.
• “When Reason Goes Rogue: Considering the Possibilities of Holding Beliefs Without Evidence,” Invited presentation by the University of South Florida Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2017.
• “Feuerbachian Contributions to the ‘Pragmatic Turn’ in the Study of Religion,”  Paper presented at the University of Central Florida Faculty Colloquium Series, 2014.
•  “Revisiting Feuerbach: Nature as Epistemological Horizon,” Paper presented at South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, 2014.

• “The Phenomenal God: The Luther-Feuerbach Relation,” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Meeting, 2007.

• “Feuerbach’s Religious Subjectivity: A Paradigm of Reciprocity,” Paper presented at the Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium, 2007.

• “Levinas and the One: The (Non-)Ontological Shift,” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Meeting, 2006.

• “Subjectivity and Alterity in Augustine’s City of God,”  Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Meeting, 2005.

• “Sex, Religion, and Alienation: A Critique of Irigaray’s Use of Feuerbach’s Projection Theory,” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion, Midwest Meeting, 2003.

• “The Last Temptation of Christ: A Postmodern Image,” Paper presented at the Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium, 2002.

Awards

UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2021 and 2026

Courses

• Fall 2026
• Spring 2027
• Summer 2026