We are delighted to announce that James W. Thompson will deliver the eighth annual Abraham J. Malherbe plenary address at the Thomas H. Olbricht Christian Scholars’ Conference, June 8 – 10, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. James is Scholar in Residence in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University and editor of Restoration Quarterly.…

We are pleased to announce that Laura Nasrallah, Yale University, will deliver the Everett Ferguson Endowed Lecture at the 2022 CSC. The Annual Ferguson Lecture has a rich tradition of featuring world class Patristics Scholars, true to the standard set by the one for whom the lecture is named. Fitting this grand tradition, Laura Nasrallah’s…

I am delighted to announce that Catherine Meeks will deliver the sixth annual Fred D. Gray Plenary Lecture in Human and Civil Rights at the June 8 – 10, 2022 CSC. Catherine, the retired Clara Carter Acree Distinguished Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies at Wesleyan College, currently directs the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta…

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…