Faculty

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Education:

• PhD (Liturgical Studies with an Allied Field in Systematic Theology) – Graduate Theological Union, 2015
• MDiv – Luther Seminary, 2007
• BA summa cum laude (History and German Studies) – University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2003

Teaching and Research Interests: vocation and leadership; digital and hybrid church; ethnography; Lutheran history; practical and sacramental theology; missional church; technology and theological education

Selected Publications:

• “Online Liturgies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Theology, edited by Jonas Kurlburg, Alexander Chow, and Peter Phillips. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Congregations and Faith Communities” (with Renee Ford). In Handbook on Succession Planning, edited by William J. Rothwell, et al. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press, forthcoming.
• “Networked Leadership in the Church.” Canada Lutheran 39, no. 7 (October/November 2024): 15.
• Preface, Introduction, and “Worship in the Face of Corona: Ritual, Place, People, Things.” In Church After the Corona Pandemic: Consequences for Worship and Theology, edited by Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero, v-xi, 3-21. Cham: Springer, 2023
• “Consolation and Medicine in Luther’s ‘Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague’.” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 61, no. 2 (June 2022): 112-118.
• “Healing Creation or Hearing Confession? Protestant Liturgy and the Role of Agency, Sickness and Repentance in the Current Ecological Crisis.” In Religion & Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses, edited by Rita D. Sherma Purushottama Bilimoria, 135-141. Sustainable Development Goals Series 18. Cham: Springer, 2022.
• “Whether One May Flee from Digital Worship: Reflections on Sacramental Ministry in a Public Health Crisis.” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 59, no. 2 (June 2020): 49-55.
• “Lutheran Marriage Rites: Ritual Approaches to Truth-Telling, God-Blessing, and Community-Praying.” Liturgy 34, no. 3 (August 2019): 21-30.
• “Defining Digital Theology: Digital Humanities, Digital Religion and the Particular Work of the CODEC Research Centre and Network” (with Peter Michael Phillips and Jonas Kurlberg). Open Theology 5, no. 1 (March 2019): 23-43.
• “Preaching in Advent,” “Preaching in Christmas,” and “Preaching in the Time after Epiphany.” In Sundays and Seasons: Preaching 2019: Year C, edited by Laurie J. Hanson, 16, 34, 56. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2018.

Ministerial and Pastoral Experience: Ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament (Pastor) in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada; bridge pastor, St. Timothy Lutheran Church, Philadelphia (2022-2023); Co-Director of Worship Life, United Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg/Philadelphia (2021-2023); lay congregational leader, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco (2014-2019).

Additional:

• Co-Editor, Teaching Theology & Religion
• Co-Editor, Consensus: A Canadian Journal of Public Theology
• Contributor, Working Preacher