Professional Bio
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Ph.D. in Religion (Theology and Philosophy of Religion), 1999
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
M.A.R. in Religion (Systematic Theology), 1993
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
B.A. in Philosophy, 1989
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Center for Process Studies
Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought
Research & Scholarship
Books
Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
Essays and Reviews
“Affirmations after God: Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Dawkins on Atheism,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, March 2012.
“Science and Process Theology,” Religion Compass, December 2009.
“Response to David Conner’s ‘Whitehead the Naturalist, ’” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, May 2009.
“Process Theology and the Problem of Evil,” (co-authored with John Woell), Religion Compass, October 2008.
Awards & Recognition
Research Scholar, 2005
Project for the History of Care, Georgetown University
Board of Visitors: Council on Protestant Studies, 2001-2009
School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Bross Foundation Decennial Prize, 2000
Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life (An award given every decade to the best unpublished manuscript on the relation between any discipline and Christianity)
Visiting Scholar, 2000
Center for Process Studies
Dissertation Grant, 1996-1997
Claremont Graduate University
Humanities Fellow, 1995-1996
Claremont Graduate University
The Scott Award in Religion, 1989
Lake Forest College
Graduated with Honors, 1989
Lake Forest College
Independent Scholar, 1988-1989
Lake Forest College