As of the end of June 2025, my part-time position as an Assistant Professor with NLA University College in Norway comes to an end due to budget cuts. However, while I will no longer be employed by NLA, I will be deployed by them, and so I am grateful that they have recognized our ongoing association by conferring upon me the title of “Adjunct Professor in Worldviews and Communication.”
I recently received confirmation that NLA will be in touch about using me on a piece-work basis from August. I will, in any case, continue to contribute my time to projects with NLA, and with Damaris.no (www.damaris.no).
For example, I hope to teach on the College’s UK study tour in the summer, and will continue working on projects such as The Legacy of Adam video series, writing Q&A apologetic material for Muslim viewers (see www.thelegacyofadam.com), and The Question of God podcast series that is being co-produced by Damaris.no and BioCosmos.no.
Talking of which, having tried and failed to secure real people to record the script, we have turned to recording the series using A.I. text-to-speech technology. I have composed music for the series, and you can listen to the end-titles music here:
As part of the process of losing my part-time employment with NLA University College, but continuing my ministry in Christian philosophy and apologetics, my partner giving account with Stewardship Services has now officially moved to the “solo worker” category to reflect my now fully self-employed status. As part of this process, I have a) gathered together a group of volunteers to a “Support and Accountability Group” for my ministry (as recommended by Stewardship), and B) refreshed my account page (with a new picture, an updated description of my ministry, web-links, and a video culled from a recent series I made for a course at NLA that lays out my vision for Christian apologetics). See:
https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20036214
This video comes from a ten part series of videos on “Practical Apologetics for a Christian way of Life,” which I made earlier this year for a course module at NLA, which I have now published on my YouTube channel:
My latest book manuscript, entitled Stepping Stones to Christianity, is due in with Wipf and Stock at the start of August, and is slated for publication in their ‘Resource’ imprint. Here’s the draft cover blurb, and an endorsement:
Stepping Stones to Christianity introduces a rational case for Christianity in three steps, starting with scientific arguments for design in cosmology and biology, moving on to philosophical arguments for the existence of God, and closing with an overview of the evidence for a Christian understanding of the historical Jesus, in the context of competing contemporary worldviews. By bringing together revised and expanded versions of materials written to introduce three of the author’s “Essays on . . .” books with Wipf & Stock, Stepping Stones to Christianity equips readers to consider the case for design in nature, to investigate philosophical arguments for God, and to wrestle with the identity of Jesus.
“Stepping Stones is exactly that, a look at the credibility of Christian claims about Jesus one step at a time in a world that does not know what to do with him. Whether we think about the world we live in, its design, or what we can know about Jesus, the world portrays much uncertainty about who we are, where we came from, and why we are here. This book helps to point us in a solid direction for all those key questions. So read this book and take a step in a most useful direction.” – Dr Darrell L. Bock, Executive Director of Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary.