Tom was enchanted by the study of Theology and Religion in childhood, finding within it the most essential and fascinating ultimate questions about human life. This led Tom to become both a student and educator of Theology, Religion, and Philosophy, especially interested in the intersections of theology and modernity’s politics, economics, and technological advances.

Tom possesses interest in Christian systematic, historic, and ethical theology and its interplay with world religions both ‘secular’ and traditional, in Anabaptism and Biblical Studies, between religion and education, and in the works of Balthasar, Aquinas, King, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche.

Tom’s greatest hope is to bring himself and others into deeper critical reasoning regarding Ultimate Reality and Truth, into more clear and penetrating understanding of their absolute interrelationship with everything else and Goodness, and into a more Beautiful experience of Being.

When not thinking about Theology and Religion, Tom enjoys spending time with his wife Alisha and two children, Tommy and Sylvie, going on long road trips, enjoying beautiful stories, and doing genealogical investigation… while still thinking about Theology and Religion.