Teaching

As I see it, the purpose of a Christian education is to help students fulfill the twin commandments of Matthew 22: to love the Lord with all their heart, soul, and mind, and to love their neighbor as themselves. Whatever the text or topic before us, I seek to equip students not only with the knowledge and wisdom of the philosophical tradition, but with the virtues and skills that will serve them in every part of their lives.

Four priorities guide how I design and teach my courses. First, I want students to know themselves as inheritors of a rich intellectual tradition and members of a broad community still wrestling with perennial questions, and to be able to articulate its central ideas with clarity and precision. Second, I want them to read carefully and charitably, granting each author due respect while engaging their arguments in earnest. Third, I want them to build and express arguments of their own in writing with clarity and brevity. And finally, I want them to treat one another with charity, grace, and civility, especially across real disagreement. To these ends my classrooms are collaborative and discussion-driven, built around close reading, seminar conversation, and frequent low-stakes work, so that students leave not merely knowing more, but better prepared to think and to live well.

Courses Taught

Saint Constantine College

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The Saint Constantine School

• Introduction to Political Philosophy — x2
• Senior Ethics Seminar — x3
• Senior Thesis Capstone

Baylor University

• PHI 1306: Logic — x3
• PHI 1306H1: Honors Logic