Education

• Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 2001
  Emphasis: Catholic Theological Tradition
• M.A., The Catholic University of America, 1996
• B.A., Berea College (Kentucky), 1993

Publications

Book:
Dating: A Practical Catholic Guide. Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Veritas Series, 2007

Save the Date: A Spirituality of Dating, Love, Dinner and the Divine. New York: Crossroads, 2003. Co-authored with Donna Freitas

Articles:
"Bernard Lonergan's Theology of Marriage." Josephinum Journal of Theology 4 (2007) 71-87.

"Ecumenical Marriage as Leaven for Christian Unity." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42 ( 2007) 253-263.

"Vatican II's Ecclesiology and the Sex Abuse Scandal." Vatican II, Forty Years Later: Envisioning the Church of the Future, College Theology Society Annual Volume 51 (June 2006)

"Sex, Time, and Meaning: A Theology of Dating." Horizons 30 (2003) 25-40. Co-authored with Donna Freitas

"Christian Scriptures on the Internet." Living Light 38 (Winter 2001) 66-74.

"Death, Burial, and Bereavement on the Internet." Living Light 34 (Summer 1998) 37-42.

"Religious Education and the Mission of the Holy Spirit." Living Light 34 (Winter 1997) 59-65.

Conference Presentations

"Theology of Dating for a Culture of Abuse." New Wine, New Wineskins Symposium, Notre Dame, IN, July 2007

"Bells Those who Curse You: Dealing with Modernity in Popular Culture." Center for Ethics and Culture: Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite. University of Notre Dame, November 2006

"Community and a Vow of Stability." First International Cross-Cultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethicist: Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, July 2006

"Community in Virtue Ethics." New Wine, New Wineskins Symposium, Notre Dame, IN, July 2005

"Lumen Gentium's Ecclesiology and the Sex Abuse Scandal." Annual Meeting of the College of Theology Society, Spring Hill College, AL, June 2005

"Confessions of a GenX Catholic." Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Dayton, Ohio, October 23, 2004

"The Lion, The Wizard, The Hobbit, and the Compass: Good versus Evil in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Philip Pullman." The Northeast Region Conference of Christianity and Literature, October 2002

Academic Societies

• College Theology Society, Member and Convener of the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section of the Annual Meeting
• Catholic Theological Society of America
• American Academy of Religion
• Society of Christian Ethics
• Christianity and Literature

Courses Taught

RS 119    Exploring Religious Meaning
RS 253    Catholic Social Thought
RS 261    Religion and Politics
RS 274    Christian Marriage
RS 280    Introduction to Moral Theology
RS 282    Catholic Bioethics
RS 499    Senior Thesis