Curriculum Vitae

    Jeff Grupp, MA, MA, CH

    July 2024

    MINISTRY POSITIONS:
    Lead Chaplain, Founder, Kalamazoo Jail Ministry (KJM). August 2023 – Present

    Lead Chaplain, Reach the Forgotten Jail Ministry, Kalamazoo County Jail, May 2022 – August 2023

    Lead Chaplain, Reach the Forgotten Jail Ministry, Van Buren County Jail, Nov. 2019 – May 2022

    Preaching Pastor, Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) (in Jackson Prisons/CSC), July 2019 – March 2020

    Associate Chaplain, Reach the Forgotten Jail Ministry, Kalamazoo County Jail, Feb. 2018 – Oct. 2019

    Teaching Ministry, Oakwood Bible Church, Kalamazoo. May 2018 – Nov. 2018

    Pastor at the Chapel in the High Rise Low-income Facility, Adrian, Michigan, August 2017 – January 2018

    Locally Licensed Pastor, Tecumseh Church of the Nazarene, April 2017 – Oct. 2017

    EDUCATION:
    California Institute of Integral Studies, PhD, Philosophy and Religion, 2024-present (in progress)

    • Research focus: Medieval theology

    Lincoln Christian Seminary (at Lincoln Christian University), MA Theology, 2023

    Western Michigan University, MA, Philosophy, 2003

    University of New Mexico, BA, Anthropology (Behavioral Ecology), Minor in Philosophy, 1999

    BOOKS:

    Hyper-Calvinist Universal Salvation. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2024.

    GOD-Faith: Discovering the Pure Logic Built Into the Fabric of Reality. Self-published. 2019.

    SELECTED ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS (full list available on request):

    Selected most recent publications:

    “The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory as a New Proof for the Existence of God,” Metaphysica, Vol 22, #2, 2021, 189-221.

    “Why God Did Not Choose All Souls: New Scriptural Evidence,” Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 32, 1 & 2, 2021, pp. 93-117.

    ARTICLES AT ACADEMIA.COM (partial list):
    “We Walk By Faith Not By Sight. God is Not Found in Science. Atheism is Contradiction Part 1,” 2019.

    “The Primacy of Faith-Feeling Over Science, Reason, and Logic: The Surprising Evidence Lurking in Jacobian Theology,” January 2020.

    TEACHING POSITIONS (full list available upon request):
    Selected most recent positions:

    Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Detroit Mercy (August 2016 – Dec. 2016)

    Course:

    • Introduction to Philosophy

    Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Michigan – Dearborn (May 2011 – December 2013) (Note: voluntarily left position for independent research)

    Courses:

    • Critical Thinking
    • Introduction to Philosophy

    MUSIC MINISTRY POSITIONS:
    Drummer, CenterPoint City Church, Kalamazoo, MI, July 2024 – present.

    Drummer, Great Lakes Chapel, Gobles, MI, April 2022 – April 2024

    Drummer, Oakwood Bible Church, Kalamazoo, MI, March 2018 – February 2019.

    Drummer, Fieldstone Church, Milan, MI, November 2017.

    Drummer, Tecumseh Church of the Nazarene (TCON), Tecumseh, MI, August 2015 – Dec. 2016.