Dr. Kendall Cox is the Director of Academic Affairs in the Templeton Honors College and Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies & Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of the Bioethics & Medical Humanities Minor in Philosophy and as the undergraduate advisor for all honors students. Among the courses she teaches are HONR 280 “Beauty and the Arts,” HONR 330: “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” and PHIL 240 “Narrative Medicine.”  

Dr. Cox came to Templeton and Eastern from the University of Virginia, where she taught ethics and theology and was a Fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and affiliate faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Humanities. She has a PhD in Religious Studies from UVA as well as an MDiv from Regent College, University of British Columbia. She studied Religion and Studio Art in undergrad at Wake Forest University and remains involved in the visual arts.

Her book Prodigal Christ was published with Baylor University Press (2022). It focuses on creative retellings of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the work of Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth. In addition to chapters in edited volumes, she has published in The Journal of Reformed Theology, Word and World, Interpretation, and Syndicate.