NABPR | National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion is a community of teaching scholars. Most members teach at Baptist-affiliated schools, colleges, and seminaries, but members also hail from a wide range of institutions in the United States, Canada, and abroad, including church-related and state-supported schools.

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Old Testament Professor Job

Baylor University is Now Hiring for Regular Lecturer, Non-Tenure-Track, Old Testament - National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion https://nabpr.org/baylor-old-testament-lecturer/

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Next weekend in Philadelphia is an exciting conference with wonderful keynotes form speakers like Maya WIley on "A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy"

Featured Speakers

The conference will feature exciting plenary addresses by:

Maya D. Wiley, President and CEO of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Rev. Alba Onofrio (Reverend Sex), Executive Director of Soulforce

Dr. Raymond Winbush, Research Professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University

Rev. Dr. Joseph Evans, The J. Alfred Smith, Senior Professor of Theology in the Public Square Director at Berkeley School of Theology

Brandon Paradise, Associate Professor of Law and Professor Dallas Willard Scholar at Rutgers Law School

Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes, Pastor of The Double Love Experience Church

Tadodaho Sidney Hill of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Betty Hill (Lyons), (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan), Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance

Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA): The Black Press of America.  Environmental Justice and Racial Equity Fellow at Duke University.

Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, Strategic Partnerships Director, Political Research Associates

Rev. Dr. Yvette R. Blair-Lavallais, Equity Research Fellow for Feeding America and Professor at Memphis Theological Seminary

Rev .Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Professor in the Departments of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Rev. Damien C. Durr, General Secretary of the Proctor Conference

Learn More https://www.facebook.com/share/1BvDE2WNfG/

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NABPR is proud to announce the 2020 Dissertation Scholarship.

NABPR is proud to announce the 2020 Dissertation Scholarship.

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2019 NABPR Meeting Program

2019 NABPR Meeting Program

The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Campbell University • May 20-22, 2019 • Raleigh, NC [icon name=”exclamation-circle” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] All events will occur at the First Baptist Church, 99 North Salisbury Street Raleigh, NC 27603

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Crescent Hill Baptist Church lecture series

Crescent Hill Baptist Church lecture series

Crescent Hill Baptist Church would like to invite NABPR to a lecture series coming up March 29-31 at Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville KY in honor of Dr. E Glenn Hinson.  They will have 6 lecturers who will speak: Loyd Allen, Karen Smith, Raymond Bailey, Bill Leonard, Phyllis Rodgerson Pleasants Tessieri, and Alan Culpepper.  Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty will preach at our 11:00 a. m. worship…

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Carson-Newman University - Assistant Professor of Religion

Carson-Newman University – Assistant Professor of Religion

Carson-Newman University is seeking to hire an Assistant Professor of Religion with a specialization in New Testament.

Job Description:

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION

Carson-Newman University is a leading Christian Liberal Arts institution, recently ranked Best Undergraduate Teaching in the South by U.S. News & World Report and received the President’s Award for Community Service. Carson-Newman…

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The Julian Gwyn Essay Prize in Baptist and Anabaptist History and Thought

The Julian Gwyn Essay Prize in Baptist and Anabaptist History and Thought

The Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS) is pleased to announce the Julian Gwyn Essay Prize in Baptist and Anabaptist History and Thought. The details pertaining to this new essay prize can be found in the attached poster/advertisement. We would appreciate it if you would forward the information of this prize throughout your publications (print, electronic, website, blogs,…

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CFP: ''Incarnation and Identity''

CFP: ”Incarnation and Identity”

Call for Papers ”Incarnation and Identity” A Scholarly Conference held in conjunction with the ABC/USA Biennial Mission Summit Virginia Beach, Virginia June 20th, 2019

The Office of the General Secretary of ABC-USA and the Theologians’ Commission will host the fifth pre-biennial theology conference around the theme Incarnation and Identity in an effort to foster ongoing, vigorous theological…

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American Baptist Quarterly, Call for Papers

American Baptist Quarterly, Call for Papers

American Baptist Quarterly (ABQ) is the peer-reviewed journal of the American Baptist Historical Society. Both established and emerging scholars are invited to submit papers written from original research. Articles and essays should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. If you are interested in submitting a paper for one of the upcoming issues, please contact editor Curtis Freeman…

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Festschrift Honoring Alan Culpepper There will be a presentation for a festschrift honoring Alan Culpepper at 7:00-8:00pm at the Denver Meeting of the AAR and SBL. (Nov. 18, Sheraton-Downtown Spruce Room, third level). All are invited.

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New Book: Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall

New Book: Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall

Courtney Pace, Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall Hardcover – June 15, 2019 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019). ISBN: 9780820355061.

Announcing, Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall, a forthcoming book by NABPR member and 2013 dissertation scholarship awardee, Dr. Courtney Pace, of Memphis Theological Seminary. The book is now available for pre-order.

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New Report on the State of Clergywomen in the U.S. is now available 

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Recent past NABPR president, Rev. Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed has been working to answer the question “How are women faring in ministry in U.S. churches?.” In this report she provides not only a statistical accounting but also an analysis of some of the trends.

One measure of how women are doing is to consider the statistical status of their entry into ministry and…

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Job: James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Job: James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Wake Forest University School of Divinity James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies October 2018 Job Description Summary

The Wake Forest University School of Divinity invites applications for the James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in the area of Baptist studies with particular emphasis on the role of ethics in the public sector.…

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CFP: College Theology Society and NABPR Region-at-Large

CFP: College Theology Society and NABPR Region-at-Large

The College Theology Society holds its Sixty-Fifth Annual Convention from Thursday evening, May 30 through Sunday noon, June 2, 2019, at Holy Cross College at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

 [icon name=”external-link-square” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Full Call for Papers

NABPR Region at Large Call for Papers: Can Christians Practices Deform Christians?

Can Christian practices damage…

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Save the Date For NABPR in Denver at the #SBLAAR18

Save the Date For NABPR in Denver at the #SBLAAR18

Dear NABPR and AAR/SBL Attendees,

Please save the date for the NABPR annual meeting in Denver. Tentative Schedule thus far:

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion 2017 Annual Meeting at AAR/SBL in Boston, Massachusetts 17 November 2018, 9:00-11:30 AM Hilton Denver City Center, Penrose 2

9:40 President’s Address Steve Harmon, Gardner-Webb University NABPR President

Dr. Harmon is…

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2019 Dissertation Scholarship Announcement

2019 Dissertation Scholarship Announcement

NABPR is now accepting applications for the 2019 Dissertation Scholarship. Some recent recipients of the scholarship are: João Chaves (2017), Kathryn H. House (2018), Andrew Gardner (2018). The deadline is January 15.

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2019 NABPR Call for Papers

2019 NABPR Call for Papers

Call for Papers National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Annual Meeting Campbell University School of Law Raleigh, NC May 20 – 22, 2019

The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR)invites paper proposals in any area pertaining to scholarship in Religion. In an effort to develop innovative conversations among scholars, papers that create integration between…

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