2026 Papers

Tuesday, July 28

3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
5:00 pm – Dinner
6:00 pm – Greetings from Brett Williams and Matt Morrell
6:15 pm – Greg Stiekes
“Speculations from the Garden: The Unintended Consequences of Overreading Biblical Narrative”
7:05 pm – Cory Marsh
“Collective Betrayal in John 14–16: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue Between Biblical Theology and Behavioral Sciences in Developing a Hermeneutic of Trauma”

7:30 am – Breakfast
8:15 am – Devotional: Kevin Bauder
8:30 am – Preston Mayes
“Establishing a Maximum Allowable Blood Alcohol Level According to Biblical Theological and Scientific Limits”
9:15 am – Jeffrey Brown
“Is the command, ‘Make disciples of all nations’ still for today? Or, God wants you to expand your 10/40 Zone”
10:00 am – BREAK
10:15 am – Glenn John Kerr
“Rhetorical Structure Theory: A New Tool for Bible Interpretation?”
11:00 am – Joel Arnold
[Title TBD]
11:45 am – Group Photo in Seminary Foyer
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Michael Carlyle
“Contextualizing the Western Hermeneutic”
1:45 pm – Jon Pratt
“How Understanding Paul’s Death Metaphors Aids Exegesis”
2:30 pm – Break
2:45 pm – Alan Sherban
“The Impact of Biblical Theology on the Exegesis of the Pauline Letters: A Case Study in Galatians and Romans”
3:30 pm – Ben Hicks
“Echoes of the Shema in the Letter of James”
4:15 pm – Break
5:00 pm – Dinner
6:15 pm – Ryan Martin
“I am the One who Bears Witness’: The Incarnate Son in the Temple in John 8.”
7:00 pm – BFS Discussion and Q&A
8:00 pm – Ice Cream Social [BFS Committee Meeting Following Social]

7:30 am – Breakfast
8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Cory Marsh
8:45 am – Timothy Little
“Finding the Divine in the Song of Songs: Divine Absence Informing a Biblical Theology of Sexuality”
9:30 am – Carl Timothy Martin
“The Impact of Biblical Theology on the Exegesis of the Gospels”
10:15 am – Break
10:30 am – Kevin Oberlin
“Ruth, A Necar: Does the Exception Point to the Rule?”
11:15 am – Kerry McGonigal
“The Exegetical Idea, the Theological Idea, and the Homiletical Idea: A Model for Integrating Biblical Theology and Expository Preaching”
12:00 – Lunch and dismissal