research areas: religious language, disciplinary and institutional discourse

Selected Published Research

Recent Online Articles and Interviews

  • (2021). How Christianese is like corporate jargon. The Biblical Mind: A Center for Hebraic Thought podcast with Dr. Dru Johnson. 4 May.
  • (2021). Us vs. Them: Complementarianism and culture wars in UK churches. Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.
  • (2021). Is Critical Race Theory a Religion? Responding to Carl Trueman. Jesus Creed – a blog by Scot McKnight, Christianity Today.
  • (2021) Guns and God: A Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence podcast with Rev. Dr. Helen Paynter and Dr. Matthew Feldman. 14 January.
  • with Paynter, Helen (2021). QAnon, Christian apocalypticism and the threat to US Democracy. Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.
  • (2020). Clean Lips: The Complexity, Power and Potential of Religious Language. Fathom Mag (8 October).
  • (2020). Divorce Sermons that Enable Abuse. The Life-Saving Divorce.
  • (2020). Women’s holy burden and patriarchy. Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.
  • with Miller, R. (2015). The subordinate place of supreme honor: An analysis of Doug Wilson’s wedding sermons. Patheos.

Online Articles Connected to Religious Abuse

  • (2022, 24 June) Transcription and Analysis of a PCA Sunday School Lesson (Access here).
  • (2017, Sept 21) Portrait of a deviant woman: Vulnerable members of the church are frequently portrayed as abnormal and even deserving of suffering. Part 1 in a Series on a Case in PCA Georgia Foothills Presbytery* (Access here)
  • (2017, Sept 24) Beyond symbolic gestures: The PCA and underprivileged women. Part 2 in a Series on a Case in PCA Georgia Foothills Presbytery.* (Access here)
  • (2017, Oct 1) Serving the status quo: Ministering to the vulnerable in the church with care and love. Part 3 in a Series on a Case in PCA Georgia Foothills Presbytery.* (Access here)
  • (2017) Loving our vulnerable neighbour: When church courts fail.* (Access here)
  • (2015). An overview and assessment of the OPC General Assembly in the appeal of John Carrick.* (Access here)
  • (2015). Women on Trial: One Observer’s View.* (Access here)

*Originally published on TAR, a site I no longer publish with on principle.

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