IBR Unscripted
Contact: Cyndi Parker
IBR Unscripted
9:00 to 11:30 am
11/21/2025
Essex Center (Third Floor), Westin Copley Place
Presentations:
Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Neighborhoods
Mark Glanville, University of British Columbia
The Bible Deserves Better: A Plea for Genre Theory
Jeannine Brown, Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN); Andrew Judd, Ridley College
Is the Land Good? Desire and Negligence in Numbers
Helen Paynter, Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence
Interested in Presenting?
Contact Cyndi Parker if you would like to present your research at Unscripted.
Past Presenters Include...
Michelle Knight, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, On Prophets, Warriors, and Saviors: The Subversion of Expectations in Judges 4-5
Michael J. Rhodes, Carey Baptist College, Seeking the Welfare of the City When the Empire’s Listening: Exploring Politics with Joseph and Daniel
Max J. Lee, North Park Theological Seminary, Paul in His Ancient Pluralistic Environment: Rethinking Greco-Roman "Backgrounds
Daniel I. Morrison, All Saints Anglican Church, Springfield, MO
Where We Must Go from Here: Reading Acts as a Guide for Ethnic Relations
J. Richard Middleton, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College
Did Abraham Pass the Test in Genesis 22? Unbinding the Aqedah from the Straitjacket of Tradition
Brittany Kim, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College
Theological Educators as Priests, Midwives, and Freedom Fighters: Seeking a More Inclusive Pedagogy
Matthew Patton, Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Jazz Chords and Photo Negatives: Intertextual Analogies as the Key to Biblical Narrative
Nijay Gupta, Portland Seminary
Believers: Why the First Christians’ Religion was Strange, Dangerous—and Attractive
Marion Taylor, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto
Who is in, Who is out, and Why: Rethinking the Canon of Biblical Scholarship
Esau McCaulley, Northeastern Seminary
Towards a New Testament Theology of Policing: Rom 13:4, Luke 3:14, and the Hopes of Black Christians
Christine Palmer, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
The High Priest in Glorious Array: Embodying the Meeting of Human and Divine