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staff & team

staff

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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.

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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, spiritual direction, 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


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

Guest instructors

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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



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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

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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


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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

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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.

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Dr. Alex Fogleman

Ph.D., 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.

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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.


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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.


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Christina Lambert

Ph.D. candidate, 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.


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Skylar Ray

Ph.D. candidate, 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.



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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.


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