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Publications

Dissertation

2023. “A Civil War in Zion”: Comparing Theology and Hymnody in the Revivals of Asahel Nettleton and Charles Finney.” Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Articles

2020. “Two of Fred Kaan’s Hymns for Easter and Good Friday,” The Hymn 71 no. 1 (Winter).

2021. “In Quest of a Denominationally Unifying Hymnbook: Three Baptist Hymnbooks Published in America Prior to the Formation of the Southern Baptist Convention,” Baptist History and Heritage Journal 56 no. 22 (Summer), 20-37.

Book Reviews

2020. Book Review: The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg by Robin Leaver. Artistic Theologian 8.
2021. Book Review. For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts edited by W. David O. Taylor. Artistic Theologian 9.
2021. Book Review: Corporate Worship: How the Church Gathers as God’s People by Matt Merker. Artistic Theologian 9.

2022. Book Review: Trinitarian Doxology: T. F. and J. B. Torrance’s Theology of Worship as Participation by the Spirit in the Son’s Communion with the Father by Kevin J. Navarro. Artistic Theologian 10.

2022. Book Review: The Hymnal: A Reading History by Christopher N. Phillips. Christianity and Literature 71 no. 1 (March 2022).

Conference Participation

Paper
“In Quest of ‘The Acceptable Way of Worshipping the True God’: Applying T. David Gordon’s Liturgical Song Criteria to Today’s Worship Practices”
Presented at:
* Christian Congregational Music Conference, Rippon College, Oxford, August 2021
* Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, OK,
October 2021

Paper
“Music as the Handmaid, not the Mistress, of Devotion: Fittingness in the Hymnody of Asahel Nettleton and Thomas Hastings”
Presented at:
* Evangelical Theological Society, Fort Worth, TX, 2021

Paper
“In Quest of a Denominationally Unifying Hymnbook: Three Baptist Hymnbooks Published in America Prior to the Formation of the Southern Baptist Convention”
Presented at:
* The Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, Chattanooga, TN, 2021
* Evangelical Theological Society, Denver, CO 2022

Paper
“Music as More than Mental Mechanism: An Analysis of Imagination in the Hymnody of Thomas Hastings”
Presented at:
* Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Macon, GA, 2022

Paper
“From Watts to Crosby: The Impact of American Revivalism on Hymn Texts and Tunes from the Nineteenth Century”
Presented at:
* Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Wheaton, IL 2024