Education:

BA 1964   Wheaton College (Illinois)
PhD 1972   Indiana University

Positions:

Instructor, Assistant, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1968 - 1982
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Houghton College, Houghton, New York, Spring 1980
Associate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, 1982 – 2012
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College, Illinois, 1998 - 1999
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College of Trinity International University, 2012
Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College of Trinity International University, 2012 – 2015
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College, 2013 – 2018
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, North Central College, Spring 2019
Adjunct Faculty, Elmhurst College, Fall 2019

Books:

Free Will and Determinism: A Dialogue (Hackett Publishing Co., 1980)
Singleness of Heart: Restoring the Divided Soul (Eerdmans Publishing Co.,1994; Regent College Publishing, 2001)
On Love and Friendship: Philosophical Readings (Jones and Bartlett Publishers,1995; Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1997) Editor
The Life of the Mind: A Christian Perspective (Baker Academic, 2002)
Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005) Editor
The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
The Divided Soul: A Kierkegaardian Exploration (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith (IVP Academic, 2011}
Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian: Making Racial Equity a Priority (Wipf & Stock, 2021).

Articles:

"Does God Exist Successively?" The Personalist, XLIX (Spring, 1968), 197-214
"'Now', Extensional Interchangeability, and the Passage of Time," The Philosophical Forum, V (Spring, 1974), 405-423
"Meaning, Reference, and Tense," Analysis, XXXVI (March, 1976), 132-136
"Encouraging Student Creativity," Journal for the Improvement of Instruction, III (Spring, 1976), 16
"Pure Becoming and the Concept of Time," The Personalist, LVIII (January, 1977), 52-58
"The Irrelevance of Nonmaterial Minds," Christian Scholar's Review, XII (1983), 310-323
"Indeterminism and the Theory of Agency," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XLV (September, 1984), 111-119
"Teaching Virtues and Vices," Philosophy Today, 33 (Fall, 1989), 195-203
"The Date-Analysis of Tensed Sentences," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (June, 1992), 198-203; reprinted in The New Theory of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander and Quentin Smith (Yale University Press, 1994), 104-110
"The Phenomenology of B-Time," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXX (Summer, 1992), 123-137; reprinted in The New Theory of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander and Quentin Smith (Yale University Press,1994), 360-372
"Kierkegaardian Suspicion and Properly Basic Beliefs," Religious Studies, 30 (September, 1994), 261-267
"Christian Materialism and the Parity Thesis," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 39 (February,1996), 1-14
"The Metaphysics of A- and B-Time," The Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (July,1996), 371-381
"A Bergsonian Approach to A- and B-Time," Philosophy, 73 (July,1998), 379-393
"B-Time Transition," Philosophical Inquiry, 20 (Summer-Fall, 1998), 59-63
"Topic Neutrality and the Mind-Body Problem," Religious Studies, 36 (June, 2000), 203-207
"Beyond A- and B-Time," Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, 31 (October, 2003), 75-91
"Suffering and the Meaning of Life," in Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil, edited by
        Matthias Grebe and Johannes Grossl (T & T Clark, 2023), 440-448.

Online articles:

• “A Philosopher’s Reflections on Peacemaking and the Just War Theory,” Sacred Tribes Journal, 4 (2009), 53-75; reprinted in The Peaceable Christian, edited by Michael T. Cooper and Clifford Williams (Libertyville, IL: Timothy Center Press, 2011)

• “Emotions and Christ-Shaped Philosophy,” Evangelical Philosophical Society Web Site (September, 2012)

• Interview on Existential Reasons for Belief in God, Evangelical Philosophical Society Web Site (September 25, 2012)

• “Existential Apologetics: A Survey” (January, 2012) 

• “Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins: A Potpourri of Thoughts” (2012) 

• "Chasing the Wind: A Dialogue on Meaning and Illusion" (2014) 

• "Boredom, Death, and the Meaning of Life," FifteenEightyFour, Cambridge University Blog, June 10, 2020

• “Existential Arguments for Believing in God,” The Worldview Bulletin Newsletter (July 26, 2020). 

Other books:

With All that We Have, Why Aren't We Satisfied? (Sorin Books, 2001)
Daybreakers (Sorin Books, 2002)
One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes (Indiana University Press, 2003)
Choosing to Live: Stories of Those Who Stepped Away from Suicide (Charles C Thomas Publisher, 2017)