Curriculum Vitae
KEVIN C. NEECE
817.308.0782 | kevin@kevincneece.com | kevincneece.com
EDUCATION
Master of Liberal Arts – Fine Arts Concentration
Dallas Baptist University
2007
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences – Interdisciplinary Studies: Communication and Philosophy
Dallas Baptist University
2005
Associate of Applied Science – Video Production (Cum Laude)
Art Institute of Dallas
1999
CURRENT & PAST POSITIONS
The Gospel According to Star Trek Podcast
Producer, Editor, and Co-host
Since 2020
Capucia Publishing
Freelance Editor and Proofreader
Since 2020
OnFire Books
Freelance Content Editor
2018 – 2020
Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts
Contributing Editor
2011 – 2015
New Identity Magazine
Writer/Columnist
2010 – 2012
Dallas Baptist University
Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts and Developing a Christian Mind
Summer and Fall of 2009
BaptistLIFE
Film Critic
2004 – 2006
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Author
Proverbs: Pathways to Wisdom Leader Guide
(for Proverbs: Pathways to Wisdom by Dominick S. Hernández)
Abingdon Press, 2020
The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew
Cascade Books, 2016
Editor and Proofreader
Rembrandt Rides a Bike: A Julia Fairchild Mystery
by PJ Peterson
Capucia Publishing, 2021
Co-Editor and Contributor
The Good, the True, the Beautiful: A Multidisciplinary Tribute to Dr. David K. Naugle
with Mark J. Boone, Rose M. Cothren, and Jaclyn S. Parrish
Pickwick Publications, 2021
Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man: Finding C. S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television
with Mark J. Boone
Pickwick Publications, 2017
Editor and Contributor
Spockology: Essays on Spock and Leonard Nimoy From The Undiscovered Country Project
and Friends
UCP Press, 2015
Contributor
Light Shining in a Dark Place: Discovering Theology Through Film
Edited by Jeff Sellars
Pickwick Publications, 2012
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Co-Editor and Contributor
Rags and Bones: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of The Band
with Jeff Sellars
University Press of Mississippi, 2022
Author
The Gospel According to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Cascade Books, TBD
The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Next Generation
Cascade Books, TBD
PUBLISHED WORK – PRINT JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS
Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts (Wipf and Stock)
Volume 4, 2015
Contributing Editor
Volume 3, 2014
Contributing Editor
Zombie Trek: Part Three
Steve Taylor: Swimming to the Surface
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013
Contributing Editor
Zombie Trek: Part Two
Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Editorial
Magic, Muggles, and Misunderstanding: An Interview with Leigh Hickman
Zombie Trek: Part One
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2012
Contributing Editor
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
Contributing Editor
New Identity Magazine
The Space Between: Seeking the Sacred Between the Pages of Pop Culture (Column)
Rescuing The Passion of the Christ, 03/2012
Lumos! The Light of Christ Shines at Hogwarts, 12/2011
Over the Rhine: Leaving the Edges Wild, 06/2011
The Undiscovered Country, 03/2011
Failing the Sacred/Secular Test, 12/2010
Worship in the Clubs: The Calling of Tracy Thomas, 06/2012
John Michael Talbot: A Universal Monk, 03/2012
Bookshelf Parables: A Grown-Up Perspective on Children’s Literature, 03/2011
Screening the Scriptures: An Interview With Matt Page of The Bible Films Blog, 12/2010
The Wheels on the Bus – and the Blessings – Go ‘Round and ‘Round, 09/2010
Are Christians Judgmental?, 06/2010
Rethinking Evrything Magazine
Obedience and Submission: Gifts of Love, 10/2011
BaptistLIFE
Reel Advice (Film Review Column), 06/2004–05/2006
Heritage Galleries Vintage Movie Poster Signature Sale Catalogue
Contributor, 11/2005
Breakpoint Worldview Church Report
Beyond Christian Culture, 02/2004
PUBLISHED WORK – ONLINE PERIODICALS AND BLOGS
KevinCNeece.com
Various Blog Posts, Since 2011
Reel World Theology
Terraforming the Human Soul – Star Trek II and TNG’s “Home Soil,” 09/15/2020
Nepenthe – Star Trek: Picard, 03/12/2020
What You Leave Behind – Star Trek Deep Space Nine, 09/30/2019
It’s Only a Paper Moon – Star Trek Deep Space Nine, 09/27/2019
Remembering Aron Eisenberg (1969-2019), 09/27/2019
Far Beyond the Stars – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 09/20/2019
Cupid’s Dagger – The Orville, 09/22/2018
Into the Fold – The Orville, 09/20/2018
Choose Your Pain – Star Trek: Discovery, 09/09/2018
The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry – Star Trek: Discovery, 09/09/2018
Redeeming Culture
Trektember TNG #22: Chain of Command, 09/22/2017
Trektember TNG #21: Relics, 09/21/2017
Trektember TNG #13: The Drumhead, 09/13/2017
Trektember TNG #9: The Best of Both Worlds, 09/09/2017
Speculative Faith
Villains Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Redeemed – A Response, 09/23/2016
Patheos
Runaway Radical: A Groundbreaking Exposé of Systematic Abuse, 04/24/2015
Transpositions: Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
The Vulcan Messiah: Spock as a Christ Figure, 09/2012
The Undiscovered Country Project: My Voyage Through Star Trek, 09/2012
Catapult Magazine
Ten Jesus Films You’ve Never Seen, 01/2012
Art House Dallas
Art That Challenges: Aesthetic Challenges, 02/2012
Art That Challenges, 01/2012
Harry Potter, Pop Culture and the Affections of the Heart, 10/2011
Crossingmusic.com
Various Album Reviews, 2003
Next Wave Magazine
The Kindness of Water, 12/2001
Have You Hugged an inch Today?, 11/2001
ACADEMIC WORKS AND PRESENTATIONS OF NOTE
Independent Study Projects, Dallas Baptist University, 2007
Christography: Filming the Saviour – A Cinema of Passion (Thesis-length Research Project)
Christography: A History of Christ on Film (Course Syllabus and Outlines)
Christian Perspectives on Popular Culture (Course Syllabus and Lectures)
Friday Symposium Presentations, Dallas Baptist University
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film Part 2, 2013
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film Part 1, 2012
Simple Plans and Open Hands: A Vision for the Future of the Church in the Music of Billy Crockett, 2010
Pew/Paideia College Society Presentations, Dallas Baptist University
The Gospel According to Star Trek, 2016
Love in the Time of Katra – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 2015
The Gospel According to Star Trek Book Preview, 2014
Zombie Trek: Humanity, Fear, and a Fate Worse than Death in Star Trek’s Borg Narratives, 2013
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film, 2012
Binary|Logic: The Dual Christ Figures of Star Trek and The Next Generation, 2011
The Undiscovered Country: Star Trek and the Christian’s Human Jourmey, 2010
A Hot Coal in My Mouth: My Personal Journey with The Last Temptation of Christ, 2009
If It's Not Popular, It's Not Culture: The Necessity of Media and Pop Culture Studies for the Christian University, 2008
The Good Fight: Faith and Vocation in Rocky Balboa, 2007
Man and Monster: Identity and Destiny in Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy, 2007
Flight of The Wild Goose: Celtic Culture, History, and Spirituality in the Music of Iona, 2006
Simple Plans and Open Hands: A Vision for the Future of the Church in the Music of Billy
Crockett, 2005
Christography: Filming the Saviour – A Cinema of Passion, 2004
Master of Liberal Arts – Fine Arts Concentration
Dallas Baptist University
2007
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences – Interdisciplinary Studies: Communication and Philosophy
Dallas Baptist University
2005
Associate of Applied Science – Video Production (Cum Laude)
Art Institute of Dallas
1999
CURRENT & PAST POSITIONS
The Gospel According to Star Trek Podcast
Producer, Editor, and Co-host
Since 2020
Capucia Publishing
Freelance Editor and Proofreader
Since 2020
OnFire Books
Freelance Content Editor
2018 – 2020
Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts
Contributing Editor
2011 – 2015
New Identity Magazine
Writer/Columnist
2010 – 2012
Dallas Baptist University
Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts and Developing a Christian Mind
Summer and Fall of 2009
BaptistLIFE
Film Critic
2004 – 2006
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Author
Proverbs: Pathways to Wisdom Leader Guide
(for Proverbs: Pathways to Wisdom by Dominick S. Hernández)
Abingdon Press, 2020
The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew
Cascade Books, 2016
Editor and Proofreader
Rembrandt Rides a Bike: A Julia Fairchild Mystery
by PJ Peterson
Capucia Publishing, 2021
Co-Editor and Contributor
The Good, the True, the Beautiful: A Multidisciplinary Tribute to Dr. David K. Naugle
with Mark J. Boone, Rose M. Cothren, and Jaclyn S. Parrish
Pickwick Publications, 2021
Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man: Finding C. S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television
with Mark J. Boone
Pickwick Publications, 2017
Editor and Contributor
Spockology: Essays on Spock and Leonard Nimoy From The Undiscovered Country Project
and Friends
UCP Press, 2015
Contributor
Light Shining in a Dark Place: Discovering Theology Through Film
Edited by Jeff Sellars
Pickwick Publications, 2012
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Co-Editor and Contributor
Rags and Bones: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of The Band
with Jeff Sellars
University Press of Mississippi, 2022
Author
The Gospel According to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Cascade Books, TBD
The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Next Generation
Cascade Books, TBD
PUBLISHED WORK – PRINT JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS
Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts (Wipf and Stock)
Volume 4, 2015
Contributing Editor
Volume 3, 2014
Contributing Editor
Zombie Trek: Part Three
Steve Taylor: Swimming to the Surface
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013
Contributing Editor
Zombie Trek: Part Two
Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Editorial
Magic, Muggles, and Misunderstanding: An Interview with Leigh Hickman
Zombie Trek: Part One
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2012
Contributing Editor
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
Contributing Editor
New Identity Magazine
The Space Between: Seeking the Sacred Between the Pages of Pop Culture (Column)
Rescuing The Passion of the Christ, 03/2012
Lumos! The Light of Christ Shines at Hogwarts, 12/2011
Over the Rhine: Leaving the Edges Wild, 06/2011
The Undiscovered Country, 03/2011
Failing the Sacred/Secular Test, 12/2010
Worship in the Clubs: The Calling of Tracy Thomas, 06/2012
John Michael Talbot: A Universal Monk, 03/2012
Bookshelf Parables: A Grown-Up Perspective on Children’s Literature, 03/2011
Screening the Scriptures: An Interview With Matt Page of The Bible Films Blog, 12/2010
The Wheels on the Bus – and the Blessings – Go ‘Round and ‘Round, 09/2010
Are Christians Judgmental?, 06/2010
Rethinking Evrything Magazine
Obedience and Submission: Gifts of Love, 10/2011
BaptistLIFE
Reel Advice (Film Review Column), 06/2004–05/2006
Heritage Galleries Vintage Movie Poster Signature Sale Catalogue
Contributor, 11/2005
Breakpoint Worldview Church Report
Beyond Christian Culture, 02/2004
PUBLISHED WORK – ONLINE PERIODICALS AND BLOGS
KevinCNeece.com
Various Blog Posts, Since 2011
Reel World Theology
Terraforming the Human Soul – Star Trek II and TNG’s “Home Soil,” 09/15/2020
Nepenthe – Star Trek: Picard, 03/12/2020
What You Leave Behind – Star Trek Deep Space Nine, 09/30/2019
It’s Only a Paper Moon – Star Trek Deep Space Nine, 09/27/2019
Remembering Aron Eisenberg (1969-2019), 09/27/2019
Far Beyond the Stars – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 09/20/2019
Cupid’s Dagger – The Orville, 09/22/2018
Into the Fold – The Orville, 09/20/2018
Choose Your Pain – Star Trek: Discovery, 09/09/2018
The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry – Star Trek: Discovery, 09/09/2018
Redeeming Culture
Trektember TNG #22: Chain of Command, 09/22/2017
Trektember TNG #21: Relics, 09/21/2017
Trektember TNG #13: The Drumhead, 09/13/2017
Trektember TNG #9: The Best of Both Worlds, 09/09/2017
Speculative Faith
Villains Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Redeemed – A Response, 09/23/2016
Patheos
Runaway Radical: A Groundbreaking Exposé of Systematic Abuse, 04/24/2015
Transpositions: Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
The Vulcan Messiah: Spock as a Christ Figure, 09/2012
The Undiscovered Country Project: My Voyage Through Star Trek, 09/2012
Catapult Magazine
Ten Jesus Films You’ve Never Seen, 01/2012
Art House Dallas
Art That Challenges: Aesthetic Challenges, 02/2012
Art That Challenges, 01/2012
Harry Potter, Pop Culture and the Affections of the Heart, 10/2011
Crossingmusic.com
Various Album Reviews, 2003
Next Wave Magazine
The Kindness of Water, 12/2001
Have You Hugged an inch Today?, 11/2001
ACADEMIC WORKS AND PRESENTATIONS OF NOTE
Independent Study Projects, Dallas Baptist University, 2007
Christography: Filming the Saviour – A Cinema of Passion (Thesis-length Research Project)
Christography: A History of Christ on Film (Course Syllabus and Outlines)
Christian Perspectives on Popular Culture (Course Syllabus and Lectures)
Friday Symposium Presentations, Dallas Baptist University
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film Part 2, 2013
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film Part 1, 2012
Simple Plans and Open Hands: A Vision for the Future of the Church in the Music of Billy Crockett, 2010
Pew/Paideia College Society Presentations, Dallas Baptist University
The Gospel According to Star Trek, 2016
Love in the Time of Katra – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 2015
The Gospel According to Star Trek Book Preview, 2014
Zombie Trek: Humanity, Fear, and a Fate Worse than Death in Star Trek’s Borg Narratives, 2013
Blood and Spirits: The Passion of the Christ as an Action/Horror Film, 2012
Binary|Logic: The Dual Christ Figures of Star Trek and The Next Generation, 2011
The Undiscovered Country: Star Trek and the Christian’s Human Jourmey, 2010
A Hot Coal in My Mouth: My Personal Journey with The Last Temptation of Christ, 2009
If It's Not Popular, It's Not Culture: The Necessity of Media and Pop Culture Studies for the Christian University, 2008
The Good Fight: Faith and Vocation in Rocky Balboa, 2007
Man and Monster: Identity and Destiny in Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy, 2007
Flight of The Wild Goose: Celtic Culture, History, and Spirituality in the Music of Iona, 2006
Simple Plans and Open Hands: A Vision for the Future of the Church in the Music of Billy
Crockett, 2005
Christography: Filming the Saviour – A Cinema of Passion, 2004
