Teacher. Speaker. Writer.
Ethicist. Theologian. Bonhoeffer Scholar.
Ryan brings together the worlds of academic thought and practical daily life in his teaching, speaking, and writing. He believes that God wants to form people in spiritual, relational, cultural, and political ways as they seek to follow Jesus, and wants to be a part of that process of formation in the lives of diverse leaders, churches, and communities.
About Ryan
Ryan has been teaching, speaking, writing, and helping people grow for over 20 years in church, school, college, seminary, and corporate settings. Ryan is an affiliate assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. His first book, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics of Formation, from Fortress Academic Press, was released in 2020. His newest book, released in 2023 and written for a popular audience, is FORMATION [1]: How to Read the Bible. He has also written a chapter in the Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing volume—Moral Formation in a Secular Age: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Marilynne Robinson entitled “Singular Community: The Changing Significance of Friendship for Spiritual Formation in Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought” (2016) and a chapter on diverse Christian approaches to public education in IVP Academic’s Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues (2020). He holds a PhD in Theology, with a major concentration in Christian Ethics and minor concentration in Church History, from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a ThM from Boston College. He lives with his wife, Jessica, and two sons, Max and Theo, in Nashville, TN.
Publications
Academic Writing
Check out Ryan’s published written work on formation, the Bible, ethics, theology, Church history, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
