I’m a musician, educator, writer, scholar, and speaker.
RECENT NEWS
My research into images of Jesus in popular music was featured in this January 2024 article in Time Magazine by Olivia Waxman.
Listen to the BBC4 radio segment featuring an interview with me from January, 2024.
AWARDS and HONORS
Visiting Fellowship, Exeter College, University of Oxford (2023-24 academic year)
Visiting Fellowship, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (2023-24)
Fellowship, Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge (Summer 2025)
Oxford Interfaith Forum, Senior Fellow
2022 Music Teachers National Association “Distinguished Composer of the Year”
Awarded for “Psalms of Ascent”, the state of Maine’s contribution to the national competition.
2021 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant
For All the Saints selected for publication in Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs, Vol. 2, from North Star Music, LLC.
Associate Fellow of the Kirby-Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge, UK
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Psalm Festival
Psalm 150 (flute) and Psalm 19 (baritone and piano) selected for inclusion.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“The Binding of Isaac According to the Elohist: Biblical and Theological Resonance in New Cantata”
The Bible in Art, Music, and Literature Seminar Series, Centre for Reception History of the BIble, University of Oxford Department of Theology and Religion
“Binding Isaac With Music”: A Screening and Discussion
University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity/Cambridge Inter-faith Programme
“Prophetic Witness And Anti-Semitism: A Case Study On Musical And Meta-Musical Upstanding Through The Arts"
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, White Supremacy and US Culture: The Call for Interfaith "Upstanding", Boston University
“Strange Energy: An Ecotheological Composition”
Music, Religion & Activism: An Ecotheology Conference from The Open University
Psalm 150: An Interpretation
Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics: Doctrine of Creation Conference
“New Sacred Music as an Ecumenical Resource for Faith Formation: An Interactive Introduction to Deus Ex Musica”
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
“A New Resource for Thematic Programming”
College Orchestra Directors Association National Conference
PRESENTATIONS: ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, University of Oxford Faculty of Theology, Illinois State University School of Music, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Butler University, Trinity Western University (Canada), Gordon College, Eden Theological Seminary, Boston University School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College School of Theology, Stonehill College
PUBLICATIONS
“A Man or Amenuensis?” in Partnering With God: Exploring Collaboration in Open and Relational Theology, Ed. Rambob et al, SacraSage Press.
New Sacred Choral Music at the Grammys in The Christian Century, Mar. 24, 2021
Rock of Ages: Jesus in Popular Songs, 1969-2019 in Christian Music in the Americas, Ed. Shenton and Smolko, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
Jesus Shows Up in Discos, Honky-tonks, Blues Bars, and Strip Clubs in Sojourners Magazine, Dec. 2020
A Literary Bible Translation Changed My View of Scripture in The Biblical Mind: An Online Magazine from the Center for Hebraic Thought
More Than Worship: Sacred Music as a Resource for Teaching and Learning in Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion