Ben has spent a career at the intersection of theology and work in finance.

His research aims to serve the finance industry. He envisions this service as facilitating a dialogue between finance and theology, wherein both fields learn from one another and aim to discern the wise way of Jesus Christ in the specifics of finance’s important work.

His doctoral work, entitled ‘The Defective Moral Vision of Index Fund Investing: An Exercise in Theological Counsel’, examines the metaphysical and moral foundations of financial investment. It begins by attending to the teaching of Jesus on the nature of moral reality and the right use of wealth and possessions. It then narrates the history of mutual fund investing, index fund investing, and the contemporary Christian faith-based investment movement in the U.S., carefully listening for the metaphysical and moral understanding embodied in and articulated by each. These varied perspectives are then brought into dialogue with theology through considerations of the metaphysics of investing, the right use of property, and the political ends of investing.

He undertakes this study after two decades as a mergers and acquisitions advisor at Deloitte, primarily in New York City. While in New York, he taught on the theology of work in finance to Christian finance professionals through Redeemer Presbyterian’s Center for Faith & Work and founded a faith & work ministry at the Queens-based King’s Cross and Living Faith Community churches. He holds a master of arts in religion from Westminster Theological Seminary and a masters in theology from the University of Aberdeen. He and his lively twelve-year-old son reside in Oxford.