Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Ordinary Sacramentality: Contextualizing Imagery in Conveying Salvation” (tentative title) in Philip Thompson and Anthony Cross (eds.), Baptist Sacramentalism. (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming.)
“Zilpha Elaw’s Foolish Ministry.” (tentative title). Liturgy, vol. 35, no.1, forthcoming (2020).
“Light from Pre-Reformation Women’s Theological Contributions,” in Steve Harmon and Amy Chilton (eds.) Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology, Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, Forthcoming (anticipated late 2019-early 2020).
“Martin Luther King Jr.’s White Moderates and Moderate Baptists: Moderateness as Betrayal of the Gospel,” Review and Expositor, forthcoming.
“Participation in God; Oned by Love: Paul Fiddes in Dialogue with Julian of Norwich,” Perspectives in Religious Studies, vol. 44, issue 1, Spring 2017.
Review of “Spirit and Salvation. By Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. 498 Pages. $40.00.” Horizons 44, no. 1 (2017): 221–223.
Other Publications
“A Case for Making the Sign of the Cross—even for us Baptists (and Other Protestants).” Baptist News Global, March 15, 2019. Accessed April 3, 2019. <https://baptistnews.com/article/a-case-for-making-the-sign-of-the-cross-even-for-us-baptists-and-other-protestants/#.XKS9FJhKjIU.>
“Falwell and Luther: A Theology of Glory versus a Theology of the Cross.” Baptist News Global, January 11, 2019. Accessed 14 January 2019. <https://baptistnews.com/article/falwell-and-luther-a-theology-of-glory-versus-a-theology-of-the-cross/#.XD1Z11xKjIU>.
“Of All Topics, Why Did John Piper Choose to Focus on the Propriety of Women Teaching Men?” Baptist News Global, January 30, 2018. Accessed 18 December 2018. <https://baptistnews.com/article/topics-john-piper-choose-focus-propriety-women-teaching-men/#.XBmBSmhKjIU>. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
● “The Humble Foolishness of God: Margery Kempe’s Tears,” National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion meeting, Campbell University, First Baptist Church Raleigh, May 2019.
● “Ordinary Sacramentality: Contextualizing Imagery in Conveying Salvation in English Mystics Julian of Norwich and Anne Dutton,” Mystical Theology Conference, Boston College, February-March 2019.
● “Love’s Journey: Mechtild of Hackeborn’s Soteriology,” in the section “Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible”, Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2018.
● “Bodying the Word: 19th century American Black Female preachers’ use of Scripture in Resistance” at the inaugural Political Theology Conference, Emory Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2018.
● “Oneing as Theosis: Julian of Norwich’s Use of the Johannine Farewell Discourse,” in the section “Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible”, Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2017.
● “Martin Luther King Jr.’s White Moderates and Moderate Baptists: Moderateness as Betrayal of the Gospel,” National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, Nashville, Tennessee, Belmont University, May 2017.
● “Sanctified by the Spirit: Theosis in Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Sojourner Truth,” American Academy of Religion, History of Christianity Section, San Antonio, November 2016.
● “‘Expanding Our Theological Imaginations’: How Practices of Meditation in Baptist Worship Educate and Liberate,” College Theology Society, National Association of Baptist Professors in Religion section, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, June 2016.
● “Our Soul in God, Abiding in Love: Julian of Norwich and Anne Dutton’s Language of Enclosure to Describe Salvation,” National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, May 2016.
- “Oned by Love: Julian of Norwich’s Reliance upon Augustine’s De Trinitate in her Concept of Divinization.” American Academy of Religion Midwest Annual Meeting, April 2016.