staff
Dr. Paul Gutacker, Director
Ph.D., History, Baylor University Th.M., Regent College Ma.T.S., Regent College B.A., Bryan College Expertise / Interests: American religious history, church history, historical theology, Christian pedagogy, and the relation between teaching practices and moral formation. |
Paige Gutacker, Assistant Director
Certificate in Spiritual Direction, Truett Theological Seminary Ma.T.S., Regent College Life Coach Credential, CCE, ICF B.A., Bryan College Expertise / Interests: Spiritual formation, career coaching, vocation and gifting, mentoring, caregiving, the spirituality of food, technology and the soul, and hospitality. |
board of advisors
Matthew Lee Anderson
Research Associate, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
Hans Boersma
Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House
Elizabeth Corey
Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
Bill Neilson
Elder, Harris Creek Baptist Church
Nicholas Norman-Krause
Associate Priest for Campus Ministry, Christ Church Waco
Debbie Wallace
Spiritual Director, Christ Church Waco
Research Associate, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
Hans Boersma
Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House
Elizabeth Corey
Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
Bill Neilson
Elder, Harris Creek Baptist Church
Nicholas Norman-Krause
Associate Priest for Campus Ministry, Christ Church Waco
Debbie Wallace
Spiritual Director, Christ Church Waco
Guest instructors
Dr. Matthew Lee Anderson
Assistant Research Professor of Ethics and Theology, Institute for Studies of Religion Assistant Director, Baylor in Washington D.Phil., Oxford M.Phil., Oxford B.A., Biola University Expertise / Interests: Christian ethics, theology of the body, procreative and parental rights, Shakespeare |
Dr. David D. Corey
Professor of Political Science, Baylor University Ph.D., Louisiana State University M.A., Louisiana State University B.M., Oberlin Conservatory B.A., Oberlin College Expertise / Interests: Political philosophy, just war theory, modern liberalism, Socrates, Plato, and U.S. political history. |
Malcolm Foley
Director of Black Church Studies, Truett Theological Seminary Special Advisor to the President for Equity and Campus Engagement, Baylor University Ph.D. Candidate, Religion, Baylor University M.Div., Yale Divinity School B.A., Washington University in St. Louis Expertise / interests: Christology, Medieval Scholasticism, Reformation / English Puritanism, Reformed Scholasticism and Confessional Traditions, African American Christianity, Lynching |
Dr. Thomas S. Kidd
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University
James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History, Baylor University
Associate Director, Institute for Studies of Religion
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Expertise / Interests:
Eighteenth-century North America, the history of evangelicalism
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University
James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History, Baylor University
Associate Director, Institute for Studies of Religion
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Expertise / Interests:
Eighteenth-century North America, the history of evangelicalism
Dr. Angela Reed
Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Truett Theological Seminary Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Truett Theological Seminary Director of Spiritual Formation, Truett Theological Seminary Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary M.Div., University of Winnipeg B.Th., Canadian Mennonite University B.A., Canadian Mennonite University Expertise / Interests: Christian spiritual formation, spiritual direction, prayer, pastoral care |
Dr. Andrea L. Turpin
Associate Professor of History, Baylor University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
A.B., Princeton University
Expertise / Interests:
Women and Gender, U.S. Religious and Intellectual History, History of U.S. Higher Education
Associate Professor of History, Baylor University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
A.B., Princeton University
Expertise / Interests:
Women and Gender, U.S. Religious and Intellectual History, History of U.S. Higher Education
Dr. Ralph Wood
University Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University Ph.D., University of Chicago M.A., East Texas State University B.A., East Texas State University Expertise / Interests: Theology and literature, the life and work of Flannery O'Connor, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, and iconography. |
tutors
Jonathan Diaz
Ph.D student, English, Baylor University M.F.A., English (Poetry), University of Notre Dame B.A., English, Biola University Expertise / Interests: Interests: 20th century and contemporary American literature, Latino literature, race and religious identity, Anglican devotional poetry, Dante. |
Rev. Dr. Jonathan Kanary
Ph.D. , English, Baylor University Master of Sacred Theology, Nashotah House Theo. Seminary (2015) M.Div., Nashotah House Theo. Seminary (2011) B.A. in Literature, Patrick Henry College (2006) Expertise / Interests: The Desert Fathers and the monastic tradition, spirituality and literature, theological readings of Scripture, juvenile and young adult fiction, spiritual direction, and liturgy. |
Rev. Dr. Nicholas Norman-Krause
Ph.D., Theology and Ethics, Baylor University M.Div., Duke University Divinity School (2015) B.A., Historical Theology, Moody Bible Institute (2012) Expertise / Interests: Social ethics, political theology, democratic theory, philosophy of language, Augustine and the Augustinian tradition, Catholic Social Teaching, and the history of American Protestant ethics. |
Christina Lambert
Ph.D., English, Baylor University M.A., English, Baylor University (2019) B.A., History, Hillsdale College (2016) Expertise / Interests: 20th century fiction, poetry, and drama; theology of eating; ecotheology; theology of the body; Christian feminism; liberal education; and the fiction of Wendell Berry. |
Skylar Ray
Ph.D., History, Baylor University M.A., History, Baylor University (2017) B.A., History and Spanish, Oral Roberts University (2014) Expertise / Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. religious and cultural history, ecumenism, Spain and Latin America, faith and learning, and faith and contemporary culture. |
Sam Young
Ph.D., History, Baylor University M.A., Historical Theology, Marquette University (2018) B.S.E. Social Studies Education, John Brown University (2013) Expertise/Interests: The Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history, American religious history, ecumenism. |