We’ve long experienced the reality that the CSC is a “family of scholars”. And as a family, we celebrate the successes of our colleagues and mourn our losses. This week we lost an eminent scholar of Late Antiquity and early Christian history, Elizabeth Ann Clark. As Duke Divinity notes, Clark’s “scholarship and service to the…

We are happy to announce the 2022 conference theme: A Livable World: Partnerships in Creation, Justice, Wellness & Economy. Save the dates and join us June 8-10, 2022 at Lipscomb University in Nashville. We will examine the intersections of creation, justice, wellness and economy as speakers and participants explore what makes our world livable. Our…

The past eighteen months have been dominated by a global pandemic – the worst in over a century. COVID-19 has subjugated every element of our lives by creating disruption, division, isolation, economic hardship and – most devastatingly – the death of colleagues, friends and loved ones. The health care community has been thrust into a…

CSC sessions are now posted on the web. A healthy number and high quality of paper and panel sessions await us. One of the timely and engaging sessions features Miroslav Volf who will deliver the fifth annual Landon Saunders’ Lecture on The Human Being: The Nexus of the World and Faith. Volf’s presentation is entitled,…

Both Churches of Christ and the larger world of biblical scholarship lost a powerful voice for gender equality with the passing of Stuart Love on March 15, 2021. Stuart taught in Pepperdine’s Religion Division from 1981 until 2014 when he retired, and for all those years he focused his scholarly energies on two themes: the…

CSC Luncheon to Honor Gailyn Van Rheenen Missionary, educator, scholar, and innovator, Gailyn Van Rheenen served fourteen years as a church planter, first in Uganda and then among the Kipsigis people of Kenya, eighteen years as a professor of missions at Harding and Abilene Christian University, and thirteen years as the founder and director of…

4/9 Update We are encouraged to know that more than one third of the country has now received their initial vaccinations. Still, we remain diligent to provide a safe gathering and plan to continue to adhere to CDC recommendations and strictly follow Lipscomb University’s summer COVID protocols. I have outlined these guidelines in recent weekly…

“White Evangelical Alignment with the Political Forces of our Time: New Ways of Understanding” The CSC has previously explored the relationship of the religious right with the political right especially critiquing those developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But few subjects have provoked more public debate in the past decade than the…

One of the touchstones of our tradition is the importance of the Bible. Within churches we read the Bible as Holy Scripture. that discloses divine will. Within seminaries and universities, we read the Bible through the lens of biblical studies and evaluate it critically. Does biblical studies as a discipline help or hurt the faith…

We mourn the passing of David Edwin Harrell, Jr. a scholar, professor, colleague, and person devoted to the church. Ed earned a BA from Lipscomb University and then the PhD at Vanderbilt. He taught at several universities and served as the Breeden Eminent Scholar of Southern History at Auburn University until his retirement in 2006.…