Writer · Podcaster · Missions advocate
Theology for the home, the church, and the nations.
Christian, husband, father of five, and churchman. Alex writes and speaks on theology, missions, and the order of love, and serves as Director of Communications and Engagement at ABWE.
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New book
Ordered to Love
Alex’s latest book (Founders Press, 2026) recovers the historic Christian teaching on the order of love, from the home to the ends of the earth.
Ministry
Missions with ABWE
Alex serves as Director of Communications and Engagement for ABWE, a church-planting missions agency with about 1,000 missionaries in more than 90 countries.
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Podcasts & sermons
Alex hosts The World View and co-hosts The Missions Show with Scott Dunford. His sermons are archived here too.
Latest from the blog
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4 Applications for the Order of Love—From the Home to the Ends of the Earth
The present hour calls for more theorists and practitioners to take up the task of explicating robust articulations of Christian love and duty applied to each of life’s concentric spheres. Augustine’s idea…
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Love for the Church Leads to Love for the Nations
Christians often feel caught in the tension between caring for their own families and churches and their broader desire to impact their nation—and the world—with the gospel of Christ. Yet these responsibilities…
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The Order of Love in the New Testament
As both a church leader and a missions leader, I often hear Christians ask how to set the right priorities in life. Is “family first” really biblical? How much love for country…
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What the Strong Man Loves
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.—1 Corinthians 16:13–14 Interstellar is set in a near future where Earth…
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4 Ways We Get Closed Countries Wrong
Not long ago, I sat across the table from a man who has spent more than a decade working in the Middle East. At one point in the conversation, he said something…
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The Humble Will Be Heard
Does God play favorites? The Sunday school answer seems like it should be “no.” After all, Peter says in Acts 10:34 that God is no “respecter of persons.” Yet Mark 7:24–30 gives…
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