staff

Paul Gutacker, Director

Ph.D. candidate, History, Baylor University
Th.M., Regent College (2014)
Ma.T.S., Regent College (2013)
B.S., Bryan College (2008)

Expertise / Interests:
American religious history, church history, historical theology, ​Christian pedagogy, and the relation between teaching practices and moral formation.
Paige Gutacker, Assistant Director

Ma.T.S., Regent College (2017)
Life Coach Certification, CCE (2011), ICF (2017)
B.S., Bryan College (2008)

Expertise / Interests:
Spiritual formation, career coaching, vocation and gifting, mentoring, caregiving, spiritual direction, technology and the soul, and hospitality.

board of advisors

Matthew Lee Anderson
Resident Scholar, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
 
Hans Boersma
J.I. Packer Professor of Theology, Regent College
 
Elizabeth Corey
Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University

Junius Johnson
Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Baylor University

Fr. Nicholas Krause
Associate Priest for Campus Ministry, Christ Church Waco
 
Debbie Wallace
Lay Spiritual Director, Christ Church Waco

Sarah C. Williams
Research Professor, History of Christianity, Regent College

instructors

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.
Dr. Elizabeth Corey

Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
M.A., Louisiana State University
B.A., Oberlin College
 
Expertise / Interests:
Constitutional law, art history, liberal education, aesthetics, and Michael Oakeshott.
Dr. Junius Johnson

Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Baylor University
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
B.A., Oral Roberts University
 
Expertise / Interests:
Christology, Trinitarian theology, eucharistic theology, cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and culture, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas.
Fr. Lee Nelson

Rector, Christ Church Waco
M.Div., Nashotah House Theological Seminary
B.B.A., Texas A&M University
 
Expertise / Interests:
Historical theology, spiritual interpretation, catechesis, church planting, and discipleship.
Dr. Thomas Ward

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Ph.D., UCLA
M.Phil., Oxford
B.A., Biola University
 
Expertise / Interests:
Ancient and medieval philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, theology, John Duns Scotus, and Aquinas.
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

Fr. Matthew Aughtry

Screenwriting Certificate, UCLA (2016)
M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary (2016)
B.A., Film Studies/Media Arts, The University of South Carolina (2009)

Expertise/Interests:
Theology and art, filmmaking, screenwriting, playwriting, story structure and the mono-myth, iconography and sacred art, the lives of the saints and hagiography, media in the Church, and spiritual disciplines.
Fr. Ryan Butler

Ph.D. candidate, History, Baylor University
M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary (2014)
B.S., Wheaton College (2006)

Expertise / Interests:
History of Christianity, spiritual traditions and practices, global Christianity, history of social reform/justice, and biblical studies.
Alex Fogleman

Ph.D. student, Church History, Baylor University
M.Div., Regent College, Vancouver, BC (2016)
B.Sc., North Carolina State University (2010)

Expertise / Interests:
Historical theology, patristics, history of biblical exegesis, Augustinian theology, and catechesis.
Reyna Johnson

Ph.D student, English, Baylor University
B.A., English, Regent University (2015)

Expertise / Interests:
Medieval literature, Middle English romance literature, poetry, and drama, rhetoric and pedagogy, and creative writing.
Fr. Jonathan Kanary

Ph.D. student, 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.
Fr. Nicholas Krause

Ph.D. student, 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.
Christine Pyle

Ph.D. candidate, English, Baylor University
B.A. in French, Louisiana State University (2011)
B.A. in English, Louisiana State University (2011)

Expertise / Interests:
English Renaissance literature, George Herbert and the Metaphysical poets, medieval British and French literature, British modernism, early American literature, literature and the Bible, liberal education, and creative nonfiction.
Skylar Ray

Ph.D. student, 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.
Cody Strecker

Ph.D. candidate, Theology, Baylor University
Master of Theological Studies, Duke Divinity School (2014)
B.A., Classics, Hillsdale College (2010)

Expertise / Interests:
Early Christian history, Syriac theology, theology and poetry, children's and family catechesis. and theological study of history.