I am a theologian and a scholar of scriptural interpretation, husband to Christina and father to Ephrem and Geneva. I am currently training at Virginia Theological Seminary for ordination as a priest in the Episcopal diocese of Washington in July 2025. I’m also the former Children’s Minister at Christ Church + Washington Parish in Washington, DC. My scholarship focuses on how classical Christian and Jewish Biblical interpreters approached reading as an occasion for forming wisdom. My book on Origen’s hermeneutics shows how his bold and imaginative exegesis is integral to the process of acquiring wisdom by learning to speak the language of scripture. I edited a collection of essays about my teacher, the philosopher Peter Ochs, which includes my introduction (with Randi Rashkover) arguing that Ochs’s pragmatism is a contemporary renewal of the classical Jewish wisdom tradition. I also edit the Journal of Textual Reasoning, a journal of Jewish philosophy. I practice and train others in Scriptural Reasoning, a method of inter-faith scripture study.