In 2016, I published Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016). The boo...

Forthcoming Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, and Race Relations Cambridge University Press, Feb 2022 Pre-order: Cambridge || Amazon In the...

"To believe" (pisteuo) in John's Gospel is more than to believe something or someone. Rather, it means to believe in God and ...

Science reveals to us many things. We no longer think the earth is the center of the universe. Our planet is like one dot, like the dust, co...

This year is special to me. I was promoted to Full Professor at my school. I reflect on the past 30 years of my relentless journey apart fro...

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY I foster and teach to engage in the knowledge of who we are in this world in which we see our diversity and differences....

Since 1991 In 1991, I never knew that I would live permanently in a foreign land.  It has been thirty years during which I kept finding myse...

Coming soon, Feb 2022 Pre-order: Cambridge  ||   Amazon   Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, and Race Relations In the Hebrew Bible, various a...

According to the Synoptic Gospels, Judas Iscariot is the betrayer of Jesus. Because of his betrayal, Jesus is arrested easily or fast and tr...

I presented at the 2021 Ellison-Jones Convocation at Virginia Union University.   For a full document,  click this link. "The past 16 y...