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PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Selected Scholarship

Expecting: Cooperation, social norms, and collective action

Social expectations shape our behavior. That's a good thing, though it does risk some hazards.

Regarding the Body: Reflecting on vaccine mandates with Saint Paul

What St. Paul's body of Christ image teaches us about autonomy and our obligations to one another.

Conceiving Selves: What pregnancy can teach us about ethics and piety

Focusing on pregnancy helps us better understand both human interdependence *and* individualism.

Blessed Assurance: A theological ethics of collective action problems

Christian ethicists can benefit from–and contribute to–recent work in game theory.

Blessed Assurance: A theology of collective action problems

Game theory can help us understand the doctrine of total depravity anew.

Conceiving anew: What pregnancy can teach us about the relationship between ethics and politics

Mothers must be supported socially. But bearing and rearing children is also profoundly personal.

Redeeming Power: What John’s portrayal of Christ’s kingship means for politics today

The Israelites demanded a king and got Saul. But Jesus shows what a real king is like.

The Confessing Prophet: Recuperating Jeremiadic confession in American political discourse

Prophets don't just speak truth to power. They confess, too.