I grew up farming in rural Ontario. My youth was spent cleaning pig pens, planting trees across Northern Canada, and teaching Latin to seminarians. In 2018 I graduated from the University of Toronto with a PhD in Medieval Studies. My research engages with various disciplines: patristic and medieval exegesis, historical theology, canon law, and textual criticism.

A selection of my articles on the Bible can be read here:
“There is Only One Great Book: The Bible.” The Imaginative Conservative.
“The Tongue of the Bible.” Catholic World Report.
“Simoniacs in the Bible.” Theopolis Institute.

I am working on several book-length studies and translations of medieval theological texts. Forthcoming is a study and critical edition of John of Kent’s Summa de penitencia, a thirteenth century manual for confessors. Ready for order is my introduction and translation of the Glossa Ordinaria on Genesis, with future volumes forthcoming.

Although hardly known in the modern era, the Glossa Ordinaria was the most influential Bible commentary of the Middle Ages, surviving in thousands of manuscripts and referenced constantly by Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and other medieval schoolmen. Comprised chiefly of excerpts from the patristic exegesis of Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, and many others, the Glossa stands as a unique witness and aid to reading Scripture within the Church’s Tradition. For an in-depth look, see my interviews with the hosts of Gospel Simplicity and The Byzantine Scotist, or the various video and print reviews.

A full list of publications is in my CV.