Professor of Religious Studies
Adjunct Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Project Director of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
Department: Religious Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
The Clearest Promises of God: The Development of Calvin’s Eucharistic Teaching (1995)
By the Waters of Babylon: One Family’s Faith-Journey through Illness (1995; Chinese-language edition, 1999)
God in My Grief: The Music of Grace when Loss Lives On (1998)
The Christmas Quilt: A Novel (2000)
John Calvin (2005)
The Aluminum Christmas Tree: A Novel (2005)
This Is My Body: The Presence of Christ in Reformation Thought (2008)
John Calvin’s American Legacy (editor, 2010)
Religion in Philanthropic Organizations: Family, Friend, Foe? (editor, 2013)
The Devil Likes to Sing (2014)
numerous articles
(Co-editor) Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
Academic Interests
Academic Interests
History of Christianity, Reformation history and thought, the Eucharist and exegesis in sixteenth-century Europe, images of John Calvin in American culture, Religion and Philanthropy
