He also serves as department chair. His research is focused primarily on the interdisciplinary dialogue taking place between science, religion, and morality. He is the author of Universal Morality Reconsidered: the Concept of God (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013) as well as several journal articles including “Moral Instincts and the Problem with Reductionism: A critical look at the work of Marc Hauser” Theology and Science, vol. 9, num. 4 (November 2011), “Is Christian Hope a Form of Long Term Economy?: An Argument from the Writings of Albert Camus?” in Gift and Economy: Ethics, Hospitality, and the Market, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) and “Training Emotion Helps Cultivate Virtue: How loving-kindness meditation develops compassion and increases helping behavior,” Journal of Religion and Health, 54(2015) 61-75.