Dr. Ross McCullough

Dr. Ross McCullough is an associate professor of theology at George Fox University.

He studied patristic theology at the University of Notre Dame before doing a doctorate at Yale University at the intersection of systematic theology and analytic philosophy of religion.

Dr. McCullough's first book, Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God (Eerdmans, 2022) reconciles traditional Christian commitments to, on the one hand, God causing all that is and, on the other, God in no way being responsible for sin. His second book, The Body of This Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster  (Word on Fire Academic, 2026), is an epistolary narrative about an archbishop in the near future, giving a Christian account of the social and technological trends that are progressively dis-incarnating us.

He also has academic publications on the doctrine of hell, the eucharist, the hermeneutics of Scripture, and liberation theology. His popular articles have appeared in First Things, Commonweal, and America Magazine, among other venues.

Dr. McCullough lives with his wife and four children across the street from St. Peter Parish in Newberg, where he is on the pastoral council and leads RCIA.