Dr. Ford serves as assistant professor of humanities at Texas Baptist College. His research interests include the life and thought of Augustine of Hippo, the transcendentals (truth, goodness, beauty) in the patristic tradition, virtue and ethics in the patristic tradition, Christianity in late antiquity, and the history of Christian spirituality. 

He has published monographs and co-written works on patristic theology, as well as works on spirituality and spiritual formation. He has also published numerous chapters on patristic thought and spirituality. Alongside these, he has published numerous articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals such as Tyndale Bulletin, Evangelical Quarterly, Expository Times, Churchman, Center for Pastor Theologians Journal, Southwestern Journal of Theology, and Themelios. 

Dr. Ford regularly attends and presents at meetings of the North American Patristics Society, Society of Biblical Literature, and the Evangelical Theological Society, and holds memberships in the American Society of Church History and the Conference on Faith and History. He is a fellow for the Center for Pastor Theologians and is an associate fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 

Dr. Ford’s desire is to see students come fully alive in the knowledge and experience of their union with Christ, to pursue what is good, true, and beautiful, and see Scripture as the source of life and the tradition of the church as a vital conversation partner within the Christian life.