Professional Experience:

• President, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 2012-Present
• VPAA, Provost, Interim President, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 2009-2012
• Professor, Philosophical Theology and Christian Ethics, Nazarene Theological Seminary, 2007 to 2009
• Professor, Theology and Philosophy, Trevecca Nazarene University, 1995-2007
• Adjunct Professor, Washington Nazarene Bible College Extension, 1992-1995
• Adjunct Professor, Richmond School of Ministry, 1992-1995
• Professor, Eastern Nazarene College: Assistant Professor, 1982-1985; Associate Professor, 1985-1990; Professor, 1990-1992.
• Teaching Assistant, The Florida State University, 1980-1982

Pastoral Experience:

• Senior Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene, Woodbridge, VA 1992-1995
• Senior Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene, Thomasville, GA 1979-1982
• Associate Pastor, Antioch Church of the Nazarene, Overland Park, KS 1975-1977
• Senior Pastor, Madison Southern Methodist Church, Madison, TN 1972-1974

Administrative Experience:

• Director, M.Div. Program (NTS) 2007-2009
• Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (TNU) 2000-2007
• Director, Graduate Program in Religion (TNU) 2000- 2007
• Chair, Academic Council (TNU) 1999-2000; 2002-2005
• Associate Academic Dean: Graduate and Professional Studies (ENC) 1990-1992
• Chair, Division of Religion and Philosophy (ENC) 1983-1992
• Coordinator, MA in Religion (ENC) 1983-1991

Professional Organizations:

• Wesleyan Theological Society
• American Academy of Religion

Awards and Recognition:

• Teacher of the Year in the Division of Religion and Philosophy at Eastern Nazarene College, 1992
• Faculty Member of the Year at Trevecca Nazarene University, 1999
• Management of Human Resources Teacher of the Year at Trevecca Nazarene University, 2007

Published Works & Presentations:

• "The End of Modernity and Outwitting Nihilism: Preliminary Thoughts on the Appropriateness and Importance of a Tillichian Engagement with Radical Orthodoxy" Tillich Studies, Spring 2006
• "Practicing Holiness: Consideration of Action in the Thought of John Wesley" Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring 2005), Vol. 40, no 1
• "The Path of Peaceful Flight: Milbank's Trinitarian Ontology and a Re-Narration of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology," Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring, 2001), Vol 36, no 1
• "Good Conscience or Good Confidence: A Postmodern Re-Thinking of Ethical Reflection in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition", Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring, 2000), Vol 35, No 1
• "To Shew the Fly the Way out of the Fly-Bottle: A Reconstruction of the Wesleyan Understanding of Christian Perfection" Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall,1998) Volume 33, No 2

Education:

• Ph.D. Dissertation "The Christian Humanism of Paul Tillich", The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (1982)
• M.Div. Honors Program in Systematic Theology, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Misouri (1977)
• B. A. in Religion and History, Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tennessee (1974)