Staff & Directors

RYAN ELLIOTT

Ryan Elliott is the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) for DC-based Andrew Morgan Consulting, a veteran-owned government management consulting firm. Throughout his 26-year career, he has held numerous leadership positions with firms such as PwC, GovCIO, and ManTech Digital. His executive responsibilities have included mergers & acquisitions, corporate planning, go-to-market strategy as well as overall growth, and proposal management. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Bob Jones University and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. He lives in western Loudoun County, VA with his family, is an elder at Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church, and serves on several community and educational boards, including the prestigious George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC.

Eric Enlow

J.D. Washington University School of Law, Order of the Coif

Eric Enlow is the dean and a professor of law at Handong International Law School, and is an expert on Christian legal theory. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Eric moved to Pohang, Korea, with his family to begin teaching in 2004. He is currently a member of the Missouri Bar and an inactive member of the Illinois bar. His publications include The Christian Theology of Law: An Introduction, Journal of Christian Legal Thought, Mosaic Commands for Legal Theology, Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion, Jesus and Natural Law, Journal of Christian Legal Thought, and The Corporate Conception of the State and the Origins of Limited Constitutional Government.

Robin Harris

Robin Harris is a North Carolina based writer who has been in and around Davenant since 2019. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture from New St. Andrews College and her Masters’ in Choral Pedagogy from the University of Kansas, and she has also taken theology classes from Trinity Anglican Seminary, Gordon Conwell, and Davenant Hall. She has a background in children’s ministry, Bible teaching, and Bible curriculum development. She writes at robinjeanharris.substack.com and tweets at @robinjeanharris.

Jady Koch

The Rev. Dr. John D. Koch is a graduate of Washington & Lee University (2000) and Trinity School for Ministry (2007).  Rev. Jady earned his Doctorate in Systematic Theology at the University of Humboldt in Berlin, Germany in 2014. In addition to various articles and lectures, he’s the author of The Distinction Between Law and Gospel as the Basis and Boundary of Theological Reflection, which was published in 2016 (Mohr/Siebeck), and which explores the interrelationship between the doctrine of justification by faith alone and the preaching and teaching ministry of the church. Having served in churches in Berlin, Vienna, and Louisville, KY,  Jady is excited to have been called to St. Luke’s Church on Hilton Head Island and is looking forward to continuing his work to bring the truths of the Gospel to bear on the everyday realities of life in our modern world. He and his wife, Liza, have six children (Tucker, John, Carrington, Garland, Davis, and Bradford) and about a thousand house plants.

Rick Littlejohn

Rick Littlejohn holds a B.A. Cum Laude from Princeton University, and co-founded the Davenant Institute in 2013. He has been vitally interested in Christian ethics and public policy since studying under the late Paul Ramsey. After spending the first portion of his career in the supermarket industry, he has been involved in real estate management and financial fields since the late 1990s. He is currently employed as a financial consultant with Thrivent Financial. He serves on the founding vestry of Christ the King Anglican Church of Moscow, Idaho, and spends as much time as possible reading and enjoying his 13 grandchildren.

Ben Miller

Ben Miller grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York. In 1999, he received his juris doctor degree from Oak Brook College of Law, and was subsequently admitted to the California bar. Thereafter, he attended Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, receiving his master of divinity degree in 2005. He served as associate pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, New York, from December 2005 to September 2011. In September 2011, he became the organizing pastor of Trinity Church, in Syosset, New York, where he still serves. He and his wife Sarah have been blessed with four children, Katie, Andrew, Kenton, and Brieyn.

Scott Pryor

Scott Pryor teaches at Campbell University School of Law in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. For 17 before joining the faculty at Campbell, he taught at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach. He has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He also received an M.A. in theological studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. For 15 years, his legal practice emphasized creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, and he represented secured creditors, unsecured creditors committees, and debtors in bankruptcy. He has taught courses in Contracts, International Business Transactions, Sales, Secured Transactions, Comparative Law, and Bankruptcy. He also regularly leads a seminar on Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought. Scott has spoken at legal conferences on developments in the law and at symposia on legal theory and history and has been published in the areas of secured transactions and bankruptcy law, the history of the law of contracts, as well as law and religion. Scott returns to the Davenant board as a well-known former board member and chair.

Myron Steeves

Myron Steeves is an attorney practicing in Newport Beach, California. His practice serves nonprofit organizations, religious organizations, and churches by offering sound legal guidance from a faith-based perspective. He is an active member of the nonprofit committees of both the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. A graduate of Biola University and Georgetown University Law Center, Myron has also served as a Christian missionary to the Middle East. He is the Dean Emeritus at Trinity Law School, a Christian law school devoted to championing a biblical view of human law and government. He frequently speaks on a wide array of issues involving Christianity and the law, including the integration of faith and law, legal careers as tools for Christian ministry, law and public policy, and law and theology.

Carl Trueman

Dr. Carl Trueman serves as Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, PA, and is widely respected as a scholar, teacher, and writer. His 2020 book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of religious scholarship in recent decades. He has authored numerous other books including Crisis of Confidence, To Change All Worlds, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, and John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man. He is also a Contributing Editor at First Things and co-host of the popular Mortification of Spin podcast.