PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Selected Scholarship
Expecting: Cooperation, social norms, and collective action
Conference presentationsSocial 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
Conference presentationsWhat 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
Journal articlesFocusing on pregnancy helps us better understand both human interdependence *and* individualism.
Blessed Assurance: A theological ethics of collective action problems
Conference presentationsChristian ethicists can benefit from–and contribute to–recent work in game theory.
Blessed Assurance: A theology of collective action problems
Conference presentationsGame 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
Conference presentationsMothers 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
Conference presentationsThe 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
Conference presentationsProphets don't just speak truth to power. They confess, too.