About the Author
Raised in Detroit’s Catholic parishes, I learned early that sacred tradition is carried not only through belief, but through place, ritual, and community memory. My later acceptance of Islam opened another intellectual and spiritual world, deepening my love for the Qur’anic text, Islamic history, and the cultures through which those traditions were preserved and lived.
That journey across two Abrahamic traditions became the foundation of my work as an author, independent researcher, and founder of Covenant Research LLC. Covenant Research serves as the creative and intellectual hub for my books, essays, teaching resources, public-humanities initiatives, and developing research projects. It gave rise to We Were Not Looking and provides the foundation for future works exploring history, identity, sacred memory, and the relationship between people and place.
My work asks a simple but disruptive question:
What happens when we read the patriarchal narratives through the land itself?
Rather than treating geography as background scenery, I examine the physical systems through which covenant, identity, migration, and narrative memory emerge: water sources, travel corridors, altars, territorial boundaries, famine cycles, and political landscapes.
Mission
I write to reconnect sacred texts with the landscapes that gave them life.
My work begins with land, water, movement, and territorial reality, then considers the communities whose identities were shaped by those conditions. Reading sacred narratives through their physical world can make them clearer, more historically grounded, and more recognizably human without diminishing their spiritual depth.
Professional Identity
I am an author, independent researcher, and public-humanities educator.
Through Covenant Research LLC, I develop books, essays, teaching resources, and public programs that help readers, instructors, and faith communities engage the Torah and Qur’anic traditions through sacred geography, historical context, and material culture.
My work bridges academic research and public understanding. It translates complex questions of geography, history, memory, and identity without reducing them to slogans or stripping them of their seriousness.
Research Focus
Sacred geography and territorial memory
Land law, altars, and ancient claims to space
Corridor politics and migration routes
Hydrology, famine cycles, and environmental pressure
Narrative memory in Torah and Qur’anic traditions
Detroit religious memory and community identity
Public humanities, teaching resources, and community-based scholarship
Covenant Research LLC
Covenant Research LLC serves as the center of my writing, research, educational materials, and public-humanities work.
It is the platform through which I develop books, essays, historical hypotheses, teaching tools, and community initiatives. Its purpose is not limited to a single publication or field of inquiry. Rather, it provides an enduring home for work that explores sacred history, cultural memory, identity, geography, and the human experiences carried through them.
Its first major published work, We Were Not Looking, reconstructs the patriarchal world through the land, water systems, political realities, and patterns of movement that shaped its narratives. Future projects will extend beyond that book while remaining grounded in the same commitment to careful research, public accessibility, and historically responsible interpretation.
Guiding Conviction
To understand the people of Scripture, we must understand the land that formed them.
Everything I write, from foundational essays to developing historical hypotheses and future public-humanities projects, begins with that commitment.