Thought Leadership
I interview internal SMEs and external customers to create informative and compelling case studies and white papers.
The value of incarceration data in continuous monitoring
Ongoing criminal monitoring is a way for employers to receive alerts on employee interactions with the criminal justice system in near-real time. But this is not necessarily a trigger for adverse action against workers — it is a starting point for getting them the help they need.
How incarceration data can save health care organizations money and improve member involvement
Combining robust health care data with timely and accurate incarceration data can help managed care organizations get their Medicaid members the care they need, when they need it.
Blogs
Blog articles are a key way to establish your organization as a thought leader. Here are a few I have written.
Unlocking the power of automation in court research data
Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) technology, or software robotics, is a benefit for the background screening industry because it automates the time-consuming processes of data collection, filtering, cleansing, matching, adjudication, and result transmission.
20 years later, the Mary Byron Project is still fighting for survivors
As a felony prosecutor in the city of Louisville for 15 years, Dorislee Gilbert has seen all sides of the criminal justice system. The occasionally hostile interactions in domestic violence cases impressed something on Gilbert’s mind: In the justice system, sometimes bullying wins.
Keeping families strong by helping incarcerated non-custodial parents
For child support agencies looking to help children get the financial and emotional support they deserve, understanding and mitigating the obstacles faced by incarcerated non-custodial parents (NCPs) is paramount.
Features
I've been fortunate to write on topics that are meaningful to me. Here are a few feature-length pieces I wrote for my previous day job.
How to watch Netflix
I like to think of myself as something of a Netflix hipster. I remember when Netflix was just a pesky DVD-by-mail competitor to Blockbuster: no due dates, no late fees. That was good news for me as a nine-year-old, because I got to watch Gettysburg as many times as I wanted.
Unhappy Holidays? How brokenness leads to true joy
I had never seen my grandpa cry before. Sitting in a chair in the middle of the living room, with Handel resounding on the speakers, my remarkably intelligent and emotionally resolute grandfather should have been in his element.
The wonder awakens: The religious world of the Star Wars saga
Star Wars not only cultivates obsessive followers but also invites them to inhabit the fictional world for themselves. The kids deeply affected by Star Wars become adults who make their own versions.
Know your neighborhood
Students usually graduate from Southern Seminary having fallen in love with the community beyond the beech trees on the front lawn of our historic campus.
Profiles
The personal profile is one of the tried-and-true journalistic forms. Good writing is, at its core, about people, and so are the pieces below.
Two-time Super Bowl champion and lives out a public faith
It’s the opening kickoff of the Super Bowl, and for a kid from Racine, Wisconsin — one of the most football-centric places in the world — this was the summit. But the reason he couldn’t play dated back to a moment he received, what he calls, the worst news of his life.
Surrendering in Simple Faith: Nate Larkin's Story
Larkin says he can still hear the sound of a clattering film projector behind him from the first time he visited an adult bookstore. He started looking at pornography long before seminary. But it was during that period that it became truly addictive.
Book Reviews
Book reviews require a delicate balance of summation, evaluation, and (for my work at least) recommendation. Check out some of my personal favorites.
The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord’s Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution
The Lord’s Prayer is a revolutionary and earth-shattering manifesto for God’s eternal reign in heaven and earth, writes R. Albert Mohler Jr. in his new book, The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down, which released in January.
Going Deeper with New Testament Greek
If you, as a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, have taken Greek Syntax and Exegesis, you know required books for the course seem to be as numerous as all the principal parts you have to memorize. Not only are there are plenty of substantive intermediate-level Greek grammars for professors to choose, from Robertson to Wallace, but usually multiple kinds of books you have to buy.
Invitation to Biblical Hebrew
Regardless of the method you choose, learning Biblical Hebrew is hard. A massive amount of memorization, diligence, and patience are required to learn it well, and the student is exposed to a extremely foreign language system. While Greek has letters that look quite a bit like our English ones, Hebrew letters are completely different, often look similar to each other, and must be read “backwards.”
Press Releases
Meat-and-potatoes news releases.
Historian and Princeton professor Jack Tannous delivers fifth Jenkins Center academic lectures
Princeton University history professor Jack Tannous visited The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to deliver the fifth Jenkins Center academic lecture, which was held on September 20-21. More than 180 people attended the event in Heritage Hall to hear Tannous, assistant professor of history at Princeton, deliver a series of lectures titled, “Middle Eastern Christians on the Eve of Islam.”
Human embodiment is the ‘proper state of human existence,’ argued Allison during faculty lecture
God designed human beings to live fully embodied lives as the proper state of their existence, argued theology professor Gregg R. Allison during a faculty lecture at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, September 4.
Southern Seminary’s extensive involvement at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting
Southern Seminary was well represented at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, June 11-12. The school connected with more than 1,200 prospective students, alumni, and friends between both Southern and Boyce booths at SBC annual meeting.