EDUCATION:
2017 Ph.D., Historical Theology and Theological Studies, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL
2011 Th.M., Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,
Deerfield, IL
2008 M.Div., Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL
2003 B.A., East Asian Language and Culture, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS
EMPLOYMENT:
Current Appointments
2019-Present Associate Professor, Kansas Christian College, Overland
Park, KS
• Classes Taught: Church History, Systematic Theology I
& II, Leadership Theology, Philosophy & Worldview,
Apologetics, American History, World Civilization,
Sociology, Research Methods
2023-Present Adjunct Professor of Church History, Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, Deerfield, IL
• Classes Taught: American Church History, Modern
Church History
Other Appointments
2022-2023 Interim Academic Dean & Registrar, Kansas Christian
College, Overland Park, KS
2021-2022 Director of Student Success Center, Kansas Christian
College, Overland Park, KS
2018-2021 Founding Lead Pastor, Image Fellowship Church, Leawood,
KS
2012-2018 English Pastor, Chinese Evangelical Church of Portland,
Hillsboro, OR
2011-2013 Research Assistant, Docent Research Group, Austin, TX
2010-2012 Pastoral Intern, Crossroads Church, Grayslake, IL
2011-2012 Teacher Assistant, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,
Deerfield, IL
2006-2008 Teacher Assistant, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando,
FL
2007 Guest Lecturer, Kwale Bible School, Kwale, Kenya
2005-2006 Campus Director, The Navigators, Orlando, FL
2003-2004 Associate Staff, The Navigators, Orlando, FL
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Academic Affiliations
Senior Fellow - Center for Pastor Theologians
Fellow - Jonathan Edwards Center
Member - Conference of Faith and History
Member - Evangelical Theological Society
Dissertation
“The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Founder of Deaf Education: An
Historical Theology of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.” Ph.D. diss., Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, 2017.
Books
Research Assistant for Justin S. Holcomb. Know the Creeds and Councils. Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014.
Research Assistant for Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 2014.
Articles
“The Benevolent Empire” in The American Yawp. Joseph Locke and Ben Wright,
eds. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024).
“Forgiveness and Reconciliation for the Sake of the Kingdom: An Eschatological
Imagining of the Story of Joseph.” Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology 5.2 (June 2021).
“Asian American Christianity,” in American Religious History: Belief and Society
Through Time. Gary S. Smith, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020).
“Dwight, Timothy,” in American Religious History: Belief and Society Through
Time. Gary S. Smith, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020).
“The Origin of Human Dignity: Considering the Imago Dei and Dust in the
Church’s Debate on Human Origins.” Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology 4.2 (October
2019).
Review of The Quest for the Historical Adam: Genesis, Hermeneutics, and
Human Origins, by William Doodewaard. Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology 4.2
(January 2019).
Academic Lectures/Papers
“Image and Dust: Dignity and Humility in the Human Origins Debate.”
Evangelical Theological Society, San Antonio, TX (15 November 2023).
“Finally Abolition: The Imago Dei and Anti-Slavery in the Currents of the
Enlightenment.” Evangelical Theological Society, Denver, CO (15 November
2022).
“The Edwardsean Soteriology of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet,” Evangelical
Theological Society, Atlanta, GA (19 November 2010).
“Justice for the Deaf,” Conference on Faith and History, Newberg, OR (7 October 2010)
