Call for Papers
The CSC invites submissions of papers and posters to be presented at the 2023 annual meeting. We seek proposals for more than 25 sections across the disciplines.
The following sections are formed to create peer review, generative, panel (working group), poster and performance sessions within their respective disciplines. Section leaders and their committees typically represent a diversity of institutions and are responsible for two to three sessions each year.
CSC Section Committees
The following sections are formed to create peer review, generative, panel (working group), poster and performance sessions within their respective disciplines. Section chairs (designated by an email address) and their committees typically represent a diversity of institutions and are responsible for two to three sessions each year.
- Kathy Pulley, Missouri State University, Emeritus, Chair, kathypulley@missouristate.edu
- Scott Billingsley, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
- Douglas A. Foster, Abilene Christian University, Emeritus
- James Gorman, Johnson University
- Richard T. Hughes, Lipscomb University
- Corey Markum, Freed-Hardeman University
- Micki Pulleyking, Missouri State University, mpulleyking@missouristate.edu
- Sara Barton, Pepperdine University
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- Andy Borchers, Lipscomb University, Chair, andy.borchers@lipscomb.edu
- Rob Touchstone, Lipscomb University
- Allen W. Frazier, Harding University
- Orneita Burton, Abilene Christian University
- Russell Dabbs, Lubbock Christian University
- N. Lamar Reinsch, Georgetown University, Emeritus
- Cathy Box, Lubbock Christian University, Chair, cathy.box@lcu.edu
- Christopher Heard, Pepperdine University
- Hope Nordstrom, Lipscomb University
- Cliff Barbarick, Abilene Christian University
- Laura Carroll, Abilene Christian University
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- Scott Lamascus, Oklahoma Christian University (2022-2025), scott.lamascus@oc.edu
- Kim Reed, Lipscomb University (2021-2024)
- John Peterson, Pepperdine University (2023-2026)
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- Lauren Calvin Cooke, Emory University, Chair, laurencalvincooke@gmail.com
- Raymond Carr, Harvard University
- Heather Gorman, Johnson University
- Brandon Pierce, Independent Scholar, Austin, TX
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- Wes Crawford, Abilene Christian University, Chair, twc99a@acu.edu
- Tanya Smith Brice, Council on Social Work Education
- Joel Anderson, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Chancellor Emeritus
- Raymond Carr, Harvard University
- Joi Carr, Pepperdine University
- Claire Davidson Frederick, Lipscomb University
- William Lofton Turner, Lipscomb University
- Dwayne Towell, Lipscomb University, co-chair, dtowell@lipscomb.edu
- James Prather, Abilene Christian University, o-chair, james.prather@acu.edu
- Susan Hammond, Faulkner University
- Robert Nix, Oklahoma Christian University
- Ray Pettit, University of Virginia
- Kenan Casey, Freed Hardeman University
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- Chris Gonzalez, Lipscomb University, Chair, chris.gonzalez@lipscomb.edu
- John Struloeff, Pepperdine University, Chair, john.struloeff@pepperdine.edu
- Terry Engle, Harding University
- Nancy Posey, Lipscomb University
The Creative Writing Section develops two types of panels: 1) Reading Panels, where the panelists read their own creative works of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction and 2) Writers Discussion Panels, where the panelists analyze, interpret, and discuss creative works by contemporary or past authors; significantly, the Section approaches these panel subjects primarily as writers: concerned with craft, author choices, how the work stands out or functions from a writer's perspective, understanding the structure of the work, how form matches content, how we can learn from the style or project of each book, how the work has influenced our own writing.
- Hannah Sutton-Adams, Boston College, Chair, suttonah@bc.edu
- Chance Juliano, Southern Methodist University
- Isaac Borbon, Vanderbilt University
- Joi Carr, Pepperdine University, Chair joi.carr@pepperdine.edu
- Quincy Byrdsong, Lipscomb University, Chair, quincy.byrdsong@lipscomb.edu
- Jeff McCormack, Oklahoma Christian University
- Jennifer Shewmaker, Lipscomb University
- David Stark, Faulkner University, dstark@faulkner.edu
- Daniel Oden, Harding University
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- John D. Barton, Pepperdine University, Chair, john.barton@pepperdine.edu
- Landon Saunders, Heartbeat, Co-Chair
- Kathy Pulley, Missouri State University
- Arthur Sutherland, Loyola University, Maryland
- Lee C. Camp, Lipscomb University
- Mike Cope, Midland, Texas
The History of the Landon Saunders Endowed Lecture:
- 2022, Kristen Kobes du Mez, "Lecture, Interview and Interaction with Kristen Kobes du Mez"
- 2021, Miroslav Volf, "Meanings and Dimensions of Flourishing: A Programmatic Sketch"
- 2019, Miroslav Volf, "Religion 2068: Why Technological Advances Will Make Religion More Needed than it is Now"
- 2018, James Walters, "The 'World' as Context: Paul's Moral Reasoning in 1 Cor 5:1-11:1"
- 2017, Landon Saunders, "Toward a Relevant Theology in/for Public Spaces"
- 2016, Landon Saunders, "On Being Human as the Nexus of World and Faith"
- Greg McKinzie, Fuller Theological Seminary, Chair, gemckinzie@gmail.com
- Ben Langford, Oklahoma Christian University
- Chris Flanders, Abilene Christian University
- Jeremy Hegi, Lubbock Christian University
- Richard Wright, Abilene Christian University, Chair, richard.wright@acu.edu
- John Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University
- Kindalee Pfremmer DeLong, Pepperdine University
- Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian University, Chair, mark.hamilton@acu.edu
- Rick Marrs, Pepperdine University
- Mark Sneed, Lubbock Christian University
- Phillip Camp, Lipscomb University
- Tim Willis, Pepperdine University
The History of the Roberts Endowed Lecture
- 2022, Ellen Davis, "What Are Humans that God Should Even Notice? Reading Psalms in the Anthropocene"
- 2021, Steven McKenzie, "Four Questions from Jonah"
- 2019, Katharine Dell, "Woman Wisdom and Her Afterlife"
- 2018, Carol Myers, "The 'Gender Gap': Textual and Archaeological Images of Israelite Women"
- 2017, Carol Newsom, "Making Moral Agents in Biblical Israel: Alternative Strategies for Alternative VIsions"
- 2016, Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, "Isaiah's Love Song: A Reading of Isa 5:1-7"
- 2015, Coon-Leong Seow, "The Book of Job in its Cultural Milieu"
- Tera Harmon, Abilene Christian University, Chair, teraharmon@gmail.com
- Jeff Childers, Abilene Christian University
- Trevor W. Thompson, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- James E. Walters, Rochester University
The History of the Everett Ferguson Endowed Lecture
- 2022, Laura Nasrallah, "Speaking in Tongues"
- 2019, Brian E. Daley, S.J., "The Beginning of His Ways: Christ as God's Personified Wisdom in the Early Greek Fathers"
- 2018, Robin Darling Young, "'That I May Enter the Temple And Astonish the Jews!': Early Christians and the Holy of Holies"
- 2017, Margaret M. Mitchell, "John Crysostom on Love, Marriage and Magic: Assessing the Evidence of a Previously Untranslated Homily (hom. in 1 Cor 7:2)"
- 2016, Sydney Griffith, "Christians at Home in the 'World of Islam': The Legacy of Christian Theology in Arabic"
- 2015, Robert Louis Wilken, "The Vocation of the Christian Scholar: Love of Learning and the Desire for God"
- 2014, Elizabeth A. Clark, "Women and the Family in the Nineteenth Century Protestant Imaginary: Between Ascetic Renunciation and the Women's Movement"
- Gary S. Selby, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College, Chair, GSSelby@milligan.edu
- Sara Barton, Pepperdine University
- Carson Reed, Abilene Christian University
- Tim Sensing, Abilene Christian University
- Naomí Walters, Rochester University
- Lauren Smelser White, Lipscomb University
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- John Lewis, Lipscomb University, Chair, john.lewis@lipscomb.edu
- Amanda Ellis, Lubbock Christian University
- Amanda Nichols, Oklahoma Christian University
- David Mahfood, Johnson University, DMahfood@johnsonu.edu
- Caleb Clanton, Lipscomb University
- Brad East, Abilene Christian University
- Derek Estes, Pepperdine University
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