Why I Believe

I am a Christian. My faith is the foundation of how I understand my work and the people my research is ultimately for. I regularly attend and help with a Christian campus fellowship at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and I take part in Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) activities.

Kindred voices

A few scholars whose writing on faith and academic vocation I have found worth reading — each link below is freely readable:

Jay Bhattacharya — health economist (Stanford) and Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health — on his conversion and seeing patients as image-bearers. Read the interview →

Tyler J. VanderWeele — Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program — author of A Theology of Health: Wholeness and Human Flourishing (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2024). Free book excerpt → · Author interview →

Glenn C. Loury — Professor of Economics, Brown University — his essay “Hope in the Unseen: On Being a Christian and an Economist.” Read the essay →

See also: Bruce Wydick, a development economist (Univ. of San Francisco), writes on faith and economics at acrosstwoworlds.net (author of Shrewd Samaritan).