Executive Director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA. He was for 15 years a Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a member of the International Thomas Merton Society and has published articles and essays in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, The Merton Annual, and The Merton Seasonal, as well as in Commonweal, America Magazine, and The Tablet.