I'm a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU. My research explores the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. I’ve written on topics including neoliberalism, sexuality, atheism, and marginalization, and I’m co-editor of the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion.

Since secular democracies are marked by a religious heritage, I think the study of religion clarifies the context of contemporary debates, and it offers resources anyone can draw on to address them. My first book, Hope in a Secular Age, argues that an uncertain hope is required to sustain commitment of any kind: personal, political, or religious. I recently edited a collection, The Varieties of Atheism, which explores the conversation that connects religion and its critics.