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”
Wednesday, July 29
- 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
I Would that Ye All Became Counsellors: Reframing Counselling through Biblical Theology - 11:45 am – Group Photo in Seminary Foyer
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 1:30 pm – Michael Carlyle
“Contextualizing the Western Hermeneutic” - 2:15 pm – Jon Pratt
“How Understanding Paul’s Death Metaphors Aids Exegesis” - 3:00 pm – Break
- 3:15 pm – Alan Sherban
“The Impact of Biblical Theology on the Exegesis of the Pauline Letters: A Case Study in Galatians and Romans” - 4:00 pm – Ben Hicks
“Echoes of the Shema in the Letter of James” - 4:45 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]
Thursday, July 30
- 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 – Andrew Goodwill
“A Different Type of Type: The Application of Paul’s Hermeneutic in 1 Corinthians 10:6–11” - 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