About Me

I am the pastor at First Baptist Church Mt. Gilead (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship), and I co-host the podcast and YouTube channel Play Saves the World.

I earned a B.A. in Religion with honors from Wake Forest University, and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. I completed my PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) in 2009.

I am an ordained United Methodist Church pastor (an Elder in the Western North Carolina Conference), and I have served both rural and urban churches in North Carolina and in Texas. I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Belmont Abbey College and Pfeiffer University.