Sam Houston High School
Since Fall 2015, I have taught at Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center. We are a Title I school in Houston ISD. I have taught World History and AP World History to 10th grade students. I have taught History of the Holocaust to 10th-12th graders.
Houston Graduate School of Theology
I have been connected with Houston Graduate School of Theology since the summer of 1999, with a brief hiatus during the 2015-2016 academic year. I was a full-time faculty member from 1999-2015, and now I teach adjunct courses in the field of Old Testament and Hebrew.
The link below will take you to a page with notes and PowerPoint presentations from courses that I have taught.
I have also written a few papers that I have presented at conferences. The links below will take you to those papers.
"Four Historical Psalms: Brueggemann's Rhetoric in Historical and Liturgical Garb" (2008)
"שָׁלוֹם (shalom) or רָׁעָׁה (ra‘ah)? Jer. 29:11 in Its Canonical and Contemporary Context" (2012)
"Jeremiah 29:11 as a 21st Century Church Paradigm" (2012)
"רָעָה as a Paradigm in the Book of Jeremiah" (2014)
"Jeremiah's Rhetoric of Hope out of Disaster" (2015)
Racial Justice and Reconciliation
For the past few years, I have become more and more convinced of the need for racial justice in our country. I have written some papers and participated in several seminars to this end. Below are some of these papers, one on racial justice and one on human trafficking as viewed through the lens of Judges 19.
"From Jim Crow to Bonhoeffer to Holocaust: Lynching, Harlem Renaissance, Holocaust, and Racial Healing"
"Judges 19 as a Paradigm for Understanding and Responding to Human Trafficking"
If you are interested in helping to fight against human trafficking, I recommend the following organizations.
United Against Human Trafficking