Featured Faculty Publications

Professor of Hebrew Bible; Director, Center for Continuing Education

2025 - Lost in Translation: Recovering the Origins of Familiar Biblical Words

2025 - The Literary History of the Pentateuch: Collected Essays

Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment

2025 Nov 17 - “Rights and Why Animals Have Them,” Northrop Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Undergraduate Society of Ethics

Professor of the Practice; Founding Dean, Andover Newton Seminary at YDS

2025, August - Cultivating Competence: The Ministry of Leadership Development

Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History

2025, October - “Prophetic Voice and Indifference: The Reformation and the Future of the Reformed Church”, The Future of the Reformed Church in Switzerland Conference, Forthcoming in German and French

2025 - Women, Gender, and Sex in the End-Time: Household Roles in 1 Corinthians 7

Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School

2026, February - Theology and Medicine in Conversation: How the Healing Happens

Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics

2026, Feb 12 - “Why Pay Attention? Play, Art, and Worship”, Commonweal Roots: Dialogues for the Common Good, Union Theological Seminary

2026, Feb 10 - “AI, Agency, and Human Relations”, 2026 Seminar in Private Law, Yale Law School

2026, Jan 30 - “The Problem of Particular and Universal Loves: Confucian, Stoic, and Augustinian”, Changing Discourse on “Love” in Chinese Christianity: Engaging Western Perspectives, Yale University

2026 - “Commerce and Communion: Business, Profit and the Circulation of Wealth in Christian Thought”, In Search of the Spirits of Capitalism: World Religions on Markets and Morality

2025, Dec 11 - “Augustine’s Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Problem of the Christian Master,” 64th Annual Augustine Lecture, Villanova University

2025, Nov 24 - “Life, Agency, and Multispecies Freedom,” American Academy of Religion, Boston

2025, Nov 24 - “The Limits of Inclusionary Pluralism”, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston

2025, Nov 22 - “Creaturely Freedom and the Great Wheel of Being,” American Academy of Religion, Boston

2025 - “Perseverance and Pertinacity: Persisting in the Difficult Good,” The Virtues of Endurance, Oxford University Press

Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology

2025 - Francis of Assisi : The Life of a Restless Saint, New Haven / London : Yale University Press

2025 - Medieval Spirituality : An Introduction, Waco : Baylor

2025 - United with Christ : Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism, Minneapolis : Fortress 2025 (Lutheran Quarterly Books) 

McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

2025 August 01 - Ancient Religiosities in Dialogue: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian

Assistant Professor of World Christianity

2025 Feb 25 - Christians in the City of Nairobi: An African city and the future of World Christianity

Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies

2025 Jan - Marriage in Byzantium

Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History

2026 January 27 - “What is so Amazing about Grace? ‘Amazing Grace’ in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody”, Amazing Grace at 250: Global Heritage and Contested Legacies (edited by M. V. Clarke and G. Atkins, Routledge 2026)

Senior Lector II in Biblical Hebrew

2025, Dec 06 - “Maps | Words | Trees | Songs” group art exhibition, threeiota, New Haven, CT

Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies

2025 May 13 - On Earth as in Heaven? Liturgy, Materiality, and Economics

Professor of American Religious History

2025 Oct - We Have a Religion in Retrospect, Back Pages Series, American Religion