Study Group Presenters Announced for 2019 SCJ Conference

Dawn Gentry, Assistant Professor of Bible and Children’s Ministry at Nebraska Christian College, an Dean of the SCJ Study Groups, is pleased to announce that the 2019 SCJ, meeting April 5-6, at Johnson University Tennessee, will feature fourteen study groups. One group, Life, Letters, and Legacy of Paul, convened by Jordan Stanley (Asbury Theological Seminary) and Gary Collier, is making its debut. Another group, Race and Religion, convened by James Gorman (Johnson University), is a special presentation for this year that focuses on responses to a new book by Richard Hughes. William Baker, editor of SCJ and director of the SCJ conference, announces twenty-seven parallel sessions for 2019.

Stone-Campbell Journal Conference Study Groups (April 5-6, 2019 Johnson University)

Title Leader (This name appears on Co-leader advertising.) Acts and the Early Church Judith Odor Rob O'Lynn Asbury Theological Seminary Kentucky Christian University [email protected] [email protected] Erich Pracht Benjamin Snyder Mark Ziese Emory University Asbury Theological Seminary Johnson University Florida

"Pastoral Visits and "Which of the Prophets Did Your "Of Ships and Sails and Sealing Wax: Ecclesiastical Authority in Ancestors Not Persecute?" Sailing Technology in the First Acts 14:21-23" Century"

Biblical Teaching on Jeff Miller Dawn Gentry Women Milligan College Nebraska Christian College [email protected] [email protected] Panel discussion “Women in Panelists: Holly Carey, PhD Christian Higher Education” Heather Gorman, PhD Point University Johnson University (TN) Presider: Kate Blakely, ThM Dawn Gentry, MDiv Great Lakes Christian College Christian Education James Estep Tim Westbrook Lincoln Christian University Harding University [email protected] [email protected] Benjamin Snyder Jerry Bowling, Ph.D. Asbury Theological Seminary Harding University

"Applying Principles of Cognitive "Andragogy: Challenges, Contexts, Science to Curriculum Design and Practices a Guiding Framework" Instruction"

Ecclesiology and Social Shaun Brown Kate Blakely Ethics Wycliffe College, University of Great Lakes Christian College Toronto [email protected] [email protected] Panel Discussion of John Panelists: Paul Kissling Nugent’s Endangered Phil Kenneson Lincoln Christian University Gospel: How Fixing the Milligan College World is Killing the Church Respondent: Jordan Kellicut John Nugent Oakland Dr. Christian Church Great Lakes Christian College

History and Theology of the James L. Gorman John Mark Hicks Stone-Campbell Movement Johnson University Lipscomb University [email protected] [email protected] Conversion Narratives in Acts: SCM Hermeneutics James L. Gorman, Presiding

Heather M. Gorman Carisse Mickey Berryhill Jefferson R. Caruthers Jr. Johnson University Abilene Christian University Library Carver Road Church of Christ “Stone-Campbell “Alexander Campbell Reads Acts” Kearley Graduate School of Theology Interpretations of the “African American Preachers in Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26- Churches of Christ and Conversion 40): Observations on the Last Teachings from the Book of Acts” 50 Years” Race and Religion James L. Gorman, Presiding Reviews: Johnson University William Lofton Turner Book Review: Richard T. [email protected] Lipscomb University Hughes, Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy April Conley Kilinski and the Stories that Give Us Response Johnson University Meaning (University of Richard T. Hughes Illinois Press, 2018) Lipscomb University Gary Selby Milligan College

Richard Goode Lipscomb University Jewish Scripture as J. David Stark Paul Kissling Christian Scripture Faulkner University Lincoln Christian University [email protected] [email protected]

Chris Jones Walt Zorn Scott Caulley Faulkner University Johnson University Kentucky Christian University

“The Lord’s Supper as a “The Faithfulness of Jesus the “Apostleship and Prophetic Function Covenant Renewal Meal” Messiah” in the New Testament: The Apostles as Prophetic Scripture Interpreters” LIFE, LETTERS, and Jordan C. Stanley Gary D Collier LEGACY of Paul [email protected] [email protected]

Jordan C. Stanley Gary D. Collier Rafael Rodriguez Asbury Theological Institute for the Art of Biblical Johnson University Seminary Conversation "Remembering Abraham: Paul "Reconsidering the "Breathless: Paul's Long Sentence in among Second-Temple Jewish Reformers: Evaluating a 1 Thess 1:2-10" Memories" Recent Trend in Pauline Perspectives"

Old Testament in Ancient Jason Bembry Adam Bean Near Eastern Context Emmanuel Christian Seminary Johns Hopkins University [email protected] [email protected] Aaron R. Woods Patrick Lewis Harvey Nathaniel E. Greene Asbury Theological University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison Seminary "The Septuagint Translation of ṣḥq: “In the End, the Beginning: Job’s "The Legal Tradition(ing) of A Descriptive Translation Theory Birth and YHWH’s Whirlwind Deut 15 and Lev 25: Study" Speech as Call and Response” Reassessing the Relationship Between the Šemiṭṭāh and the Yôbēl" Peace and Social Justice Paul Axton Aaron R. Woods Forging Ploughshares (non-profit) Asbury Theological Seminary [email protected] Shaun Brown Eric A. Siebert Aaron R. Woods Wycliffe College, University Messiah College Asbury Theological Seminary of Toronto “Helping the Church Look More "Israel-Palestine and the Pursuit of “Zionism in Christian Like Jesus: Living Nonviolently in a Peace: Stories, History, and Perspective” Violent World” Reflections on a Year Lived in Jerusalem"

Philosophy James F. Sennett Paul Axton Brenau University [email protected] [email protected]

James Sennett Tom Millay John C. Poirier Brenau University Baylor University Germantown, OH

“Hypernorms, Primary “Disciples and Practical Reason: The “Does Wittgenstein Support Goods, and Christian Ethics: (Potential) Importance of Immanuel Lindbeck’s Cultural-Linguistic What Global Moral Theory Kant to the Spirituality of the Model?” Can Teach Missiology” Christian Church”

Second Temple Judaism Jon Carman Amy Smith Carman Baylor University Brite Divinity School [email protected] [email protected] Jon-Michael Carman Dr. Carl Toney Ben Snyder Baylor University Hope International University Asbury Theological Seminary

“Angelic Jealousy in Second “Minimizing and Multiplying “Was John’s Baptisma Temple Judaism” Messiahs in the Manual of Disciple” Metanoias Unique?”

Synoptic Gospels Barry L. Blackburn Danny Yencich Emmanuel Christian Seminary University of Denver Point University [email protected] [email protected] Barry Blackburn, Sr. Stewart Penwell Danny Yencich Emmanuel Christian Cincinnati Christian University University of Denver Seminary/Point University "Samaritans in Luke and the Sins of "Courtroom Fatigue: How the Synoptic “Ap’ Arti: The Basis for a Evangelical Commentaries" Tradition Makes Sense of Luke's Pilate Non-Parousia Reading of Sequence (23:13-25)" Matthew 26:64?” Theological Reflection Stephen Lawson Joe Gordon Saint Louis University Johnson University [email protected] [email protected] Panel Discussion Panelists: Steven Cone What is Theology? Lincoln Christian University Paul Blowers Presider: Emmanuel Christian Seminary Jennifer Craft Stephen Lawson Point University Raymond Carr Pepperdine University Lauren Smelser White Lipscomb University