Class of 2025
Luke Zerra
Luke is currently the Associate Dean of the Stevenson School for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and an Episcopal Priest serving a parish in Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary in Theology and Ethics and wrote his dissertation on liturgy and moral formation in Anglican theologian Richard Hooker. He is also interested in disability ethics and accounts of religious language. As a member of the FPE board, Luke looks forward to creating spaces to share and comment on each other’s work and to help foster connections between the academic and ecclesial aspects of the FPE’s work.
RUSSELL P. JOHNSON
Russell teaches religious studies and philosophy at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on polarization, antagonism, nonviolence, and how people perceive and treat their enemies. He is the author of Beyond Civility in Social Conflict: Dialogue, Critique, and Religious Ethics.
PATRICK HALEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Patrick is a fellow in faith, formation, and education at Trinity Church, NYC, and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he recently completed his PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Politics. His research focuses on religious language use, especially contested concepts (e.g., the image of God, reparations, and heresy) and their role in ethics and social criticism. He is currently working on his first book, tentatively titled The Divine Image and Human Language: Dignity, Recognition, and Their Politics.
Class of 2026
michelle bostic
VICE PRESIDENT
Michelle Bostic is a PhD Candidate in religious ethics at the University of Virginia. Their work lies at the intersections of religious ethics, black geographies, and queer and trans studies. They also hold a Master in Public Health focusing on health, law, and ethics from the University of Virginia and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Jimmy haring
PRESIDENT
Jimmy Haring completed his PhD at the University of Notre Dame, where he wrote a dissertation entitled, “God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant.” His work has appeared in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Political Theology. He is currently employed in the renewable energy industry.
Class of 2027
Joseph Lim
Joseph is a PhD candidate in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame. His work centers on the practices by which individuals repair relationships and hold one another accountable in the wake of wrongdoing. He is also interested in moral motivation, moral formation, Asian American theology, and theological responses to racism. Prior to beginning his study of moral theology at Notre Dame, he obtained a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and was a youth pastor for four years at a small Korean American church in northern New Jersey.