2025
Wesley’s Ecologically Informed Interpretation of Scripture, Science, and Society
John Wesley–the busy Anglican preacher and evangelist and founder of the Methodist movement–interpreted scripture in ways we might consider ecological now. He didn’t simply view scripture and its revelation of the purposes of God as solely directed towards human salvation. My essay in this edited volume teases out some of the ways Wesley interpreted his world with the whole creation in view.
2022
Creation’s Slavery & Liberation
What did the Apostle Paul mean when he portrayed the creation as subjected to frustration and enslaved to destruction (Rom 8:20–21)? Creation’s Slavery and Liberation addresses this and other questions by tracing the stories of creation as they appear in Paul’s own scriptures, Roman imperial propaganda, Paul’s letter to Rome, and U.S. industrial agriculture.
2020
A short commentary on Romans written in conversation with Wesleyan theological and interpretive perspectives in The Wesley One-Volume Commentary on the Bible, eds. Kenneth J. Collins and Robert W. Wall (Nashville: Abingdon, 2020).
2018
Editor: Practicing with Paul
Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018).
Articles & Chapters
“A Wesleyan Ecological Hermeneutic: Interpreting Scripture, Science, & Society Ecologically” in Wesleyan Theological Journal 56.2 (Fall 2021).
“Christlike Feasting: Attentiveness, Solidarity, and Self-Restraint in Romans,” in Practicing with Paul: A Festschrift for Dr. Susan Eastman, ed. Presian Burroughs(Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018).
“Wesley’s Representation of Salvation in ‘The Scripture Way of Salvation’: A Pauline Assessment” in Wesleyan Theological Journal 51.1 (Spring 2016).
“Salvation In, Through, and For Creation” in Generation Rising: A Future with Hope for the United Methodist Church, ed. Andrew Thompson (Nashville: Abingdon, 2011).