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)