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Essays
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“The Comforting and Disrupting Spirit: The Holy Spirit and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life,” with David McNutt, in Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology through the Arts (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2025).
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“Preface: Theo-Theatrical Imagination,” in Bruce D. Long, The Problem with the Dot: A Holistic Approach to Christians’ Care and Cultivation of Global Culture through the Theatrical Ecosystem (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2021).
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“Afterword,” with Ben Wayman, in Samuel Wells, Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, 2nd edition (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2018).
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“The Drama of New Creation,” SEEN 14.1 (2015).
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“Church Beyond the Fourth Wall: Incorporating the Audience as Guest in Interactive and Ecclesial Theatre,” Cultural Encounters 8.1 (2012): 7-22.
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Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt, "The Ascension of Jesus and the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Patristic Perspective: A Theological Reading," The Evangelical Quarterly 79.1 (Jan-Mar. 2007): 23-34.








