Jennifer Garcia Bashaw is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. She is an ordained American Baptist minister and has served in multiple Baptist churches throughout the country.

Contact: bashaw@campbell.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
Scapegoat Stories: The Gospels through the Eyes of Victims. Fortress Press, 2022.
“A Teaching Travelogue: Women in the Bible and the Church” in Enlighten: Formational Learning in Theological Field Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.
“‘When Jesus saw her’…: a hermeneutical response to #Metoo and #Churchtoo,” Review and Expositor 117.2 (2020): 1-10.

Mikael Broadway is Associate Professor of theology and ethics at Shaw University Divinity School in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contact: mbroadwa@shawu.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
“Mistaking White for Light: Awakening to a Truthful Search for the Light,” in Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology, 63-75. Mercer University Press, 2020.
“Grinding the Face of the Poor,” Review and Expositor 116.1 (2019): 1-14.
“Is It Not the Communion of the Body of Christ?”, Review and Expositor 100 (Summer 2003): 408-447.

Amy Chilton is the senior minister of Phillips Memorial Baptist Church in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Contact: amylynnechilton@gmail.com

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology (edited with Steven R. Harmon). Mercer University Press, 2020.
“How Do I speak of God from This Place?: Navigating Religious Language Shifts in Baptist Contexts,” American Baptist Quarterly 35 (Spring 2016): 52-62.
“Where is the Love? The Disruptive Possibilities of Women’s Friendships as Participation in the Triune God.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 45.1 (2018): 27-36.

Wayne E. Croft, Sr. DMin, PhD serves as The Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr. Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics in African American Studies and teaches Baptist History and Polity. Dr. Croft is also the Pastor of the St. Paul’s Baptist Church in West Chester, PA.

Contact: waynecroft2012@gmail.com

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions

Select Publication:
A History of the Black Baptist Church: I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired. Judson Press, 2020.

Bruce Fawcett is President, Vice Chancellor, and Professor of Leadership and Religious Studies at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. An ordained Canadian Baptist minister, he is a former pastor, denominational staff member, and seminary dean.

Contact: bruce.fawcett@crandallu.ca

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences, consulting

Select publications:
Christian Higher Education in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities (edited with Stanley Porter). Pickwick Publications, 2020.
Roots and Resurgence: Atlantic Baptist Youth Ministry at the Turn of the Millennium (edited with Dale Stairs). Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada, 2013.
Why Do Young People Decide to Become Christian Ministers?: Applying psychological type theory to understand the choice of vocation by Canadian Baptist teenagers. Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Curtis W. Freeman is Research Professor of Theology at Duke University Divinity School and Director of the Baptist House of Studies at the Divinity School. He is the editor of American Baptist Quarterly and a member of the Baptist World Alliance’s Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity.

Contact: cfreeman@div.duke.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists. Baylor University Press, 2014.
Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity. Baylor University Press, 2017.
Pilgrim Letters: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ. Fortress Press, 2021.

Professor Goatley is a constructive theologian whose scholarship and practice is at the intersection of missiology, Black theology, and leadership strategy. A globally recognized missiologist, he emphasizes cross-cultural experiential learning with indigenous communities to deepen understanding, broaden horizons, and strengthen Christian discipleship and leadership formation.

Contact: dgoatley (at) div.duke.edu

Select Publications:
Were You There?: Godforsakenness in Slave Religion. 25th Anniversary Printing. Wipf & Stock, 2021.
A Divine Assignment: The Ecclesiology of Wendell Clay Somerville. Lucas Park Books, 2010.
Black Religion, Black Theology: The Collected Essays of J. Deotis Roberts. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2003.

Steven R. Harmon is Professor of Historical Theology in the School of Divinity at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He is an ordained Baptist minister affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, past President of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and co-secretary of the Baptist-Catholic International Dialogue Joint Commission–Phase III.

Contact: sharmon@gardner-webb.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
Baptists, Catholics, and the Whole Church: Partners in the Pilgrimage to Unity. New City Press, 2021.
Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology (edited with Amy L. Chilton). Mercer University Press, 2020.
Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community. Baylor University Press, 2016.
Ecumenism Means You, Too: Ordinary Christians and the Quest for Christian Unity. Cascade Books, 2010.
Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision. Paternoster, 2006.

Derek C. Hatch is the Coordinator of the NABF Scholars Collaboration. He is Professor of Religion and Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies at Georgetown College. He is a member of the Baptist World Alliance’s Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity.

Contact: derek_hatch@georgetowncollege.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
“Catholicity from a Baptist Perspective.” Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies 5.2 (2020): 341-356.
“Hearing Voices of Lived Christian Lives.” In Sources of Light. Mercer University Press, 2020.
“Koinonia as an Ecumenical Opening for Baptists.” Ecumenical Review 71.1-2 (January-April 2019): 175-188.
Thinking with the Church: Toward a Renewal of Baptist Theology. Cascade Books, 2017.
Gathering Together: Baptists at Work in Worship (edited with Rodney Wallace Kennedy). Pickwick, 2013.

Melody Maxwell serves as Associate Professor of Church History and Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is the author of multiple books and articles about Baptist women.

Contact: melody.maxwell@acadiau.ca

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
“‘Proceed with Care’: Atlantic Baptists and Women’s Ordination in the 1980s.” Baptist History and Heritage 55.1 (Spring 2020).
Doing the Word: Southern Baptists’ Carver School of Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997 (authored with T. Laine Scales). University of Tennessee Press, 2019.
The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women’s Writings, 1906–2006. University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Mark S. Medley is Professor of Theology and Seminary Chapel/Community Prayer Coordinator at Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (Georgetown/Louisville, KY). He also serves as Theologian-in-Residence at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Lexington, Kentucky, His current project is on baptism and baptismal life interpreted in a martyrial key.

Contact: mark.medley@bsk.edu

Available for Lectures, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
“Subversive Song: Imagining Colossians 1:15-20 as a Social Protest Hymn in the Context of Roman Empire,” Review and Expositor 116.4 (2019): 421-435.
“Capacitated For Living Baptismally: Martyrial Living, Liturgical Asceticism, and Quotidian Existence,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 46.1 (2019): 39-54.
“Local Catholicity: The Bodies and Places Where Jesus is (Found)” (co-authored with John Inscore Essick), Review and Expositor 112.1 (2015): 47-59.
“’Always Carrying in the Body the Death of Jesus’: Baptism, Martyrdom and Quotidian Existence in Rowan Williams’s Theology,” Anglican Theological Review 94.3 (2012): 475-493.
“Stewards, Interrogators, and Inventors: Toward a Practice of Tradition,” Pro Ecclesia 18.1 (2009): 69-92.

Elizabeth Newman is Professor of Theology (Adjunct) at Duke Divinity School. Previously she was the Eula Mae and John Baugh Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (2002-2019). She is the author of Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (2007); Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body: Teresa’s Scriptural Vision (2012); and Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture (2018). She currently serves as Chair of the Baptist Alliance’s Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity.

Contact: bnewman.theology@gmail.com

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture. Cascade Books, 2018.
“Healing Eucharistic Amnesia.” In Worship, Tradition, and Engagement, Essays in Honor of Timothy George, 92-107. Pickwick, 2018.
Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body: Teresa’s Scriptural Vision. Cascade Books, 2012.
Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers. Brazos Press, 2007.

Myles Werntz is Director of the Baptist Studies Center and Associate Professor of Theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

Contact: mpw20a@acu.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Panel Discussions, Web Conferences

Select Publications:
A Fieldguide to Christian Nonviolence. Baker Academic, 2022.
From Isolation to Community: A Renewed Vision for Christian Life Together. Baker Academic, 2022.
Bodies of Peace: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and Witness. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.
Sports and Violence: History, Theory, Practice (edited with Craig Hovey and John White). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
“Bearing the Impossible Present: Bonhoeffer, Illegality, and the Witness for Migrants”, The Bonhoeffer Legacy 7 (2020)
“Voices: Giving Up Our Guns: A Lenten Proposal” Baptist Standard (February 21, 2018).

Jonathan R. Wilson was raised in the southern US, but has lived most of his adult life in Canada. He has served Christ for over 50 years as a laborer, entrepreneur, business manager, pastor, author, professor, and now as a senior research fellow of the Centre for Missional Leadership, St. Andrew’s Hall (Vancouver), an honorary senior research fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre (Amsterdam), and as senior theological consultant for integral mission with Canadian Baptist Ministries, which has enabled him to learn from God’s people on five continents.

Contact: jwilson@regent-college.edu

Available for Lectures, Guest Preaching, Web Conferences, Retreats for congregations and leaders; Web-based consultations

Select publications:
God’s Good World: Reclaiming the Doctrine of Creation. Baker Academic, 2013.
Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World. Cascade Books, 2010.
Gospel Virtues: Practicing Faith, Hope, and Love in Uncertain Times. Wipf & Stock, 2004.