ph.d student @ucsbreligion | alumnus @yale • @bu_tweets • @uncg | united methodist minister • certified healthcare chaplain
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined April 2018
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Proud to be a small part of this incredible project and scholar cohort. @UChiDivinity
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Most decisions to care for one another and ourselves are made during ordinary moments, not extraordinary ones. This in mind, I hadn’t heard a sermon on the “Ordinary Time” portion of the church year before, so I took it on yesterday. Here’s the clip: youtu.be/Z6OPmH2D3Tw
Dr. Seuss fans might enjoy this message from a week ago Sunday. 📙
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Honored to have received the Ostad Elahi Fellowship Award in the Study of Religion from my home Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
With the additional financial support this academic year, I was able to interview chaplains across four major healthcare systems… – at Isla Vista, CA
to better understand the influence of metaphysical religion on modern chaplain education and practice. This research will lead to at least two articles that I hope will contribute meaningfully to conversations about the many recent…
Kate Bowler’s dissertation book, Blessed (2013), inspired me to apply to Ph.D. programs in religious studies three years ago. It was such a *joy* to meet her today on the West Coast, to hear about her new book, Joyful Anyway. She even signed my copy of Blessed :) @KatecBowler
This morning it was humbling to preach and to center the story of "Janie," a pediatric patient of mine whose life remains with me still. In the darkest moments imaginable, Janie made a hospital room capable of receiving light again.
My review of Sarah Jobe’s most recent book, No Godforsaken Place (T&T Clark, 2025) for @ChristianCent signals how difficult the role of the chaplain is today, amid differing opinions about what it should be, in contexts most will never see.
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It is a joy to share that a creative piece of mine has been published in @Yale University's literary journal, The PERCH. pp. 128-129.
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Honored to participate in this daylong symposium (Feb. 21) celebrating Professor Emerita Catherine L. Albanese, whose work continues to orient my own. @CappsUcsb independent.com/events/cathe…
When they saw the star, they jumped for joy.
A story about goodness made, dwelling among people, without exclusion, without requisite action.
#MerryChristmas 🎄
My #AARSBL25 paper 2 had a full room at 8:30am on the final morning of this year’s American Academy of Religion. Grateful for a lively and engaging Q&A, supportive colleagues and many guests and new friends.
most importantly, highly influential—all the way to being entirely present in highest political office in the United States. The rags-to-riches myth—based on a misinterpretation of, for instance, Horatio Alger’s novels—
Thank you to the Reverend Dr. Sarah Jobe for her field-making ethnography on prisons and prison chaplaincy and to Ryan Schellenberg and friends at @ChaplainLab for gathering such an incredibly talented panel, with Drs. Jerusha Neal, Shelly Rambo & Jason Evans #AARSBL25 #SBLAAR25
Jobe’s new book is the first-ever peer-reviewed ethnographic publication on and from within prisons. Find your copy here: lnkd.in/ebq4ScPH