Please register for the 2026 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Plymouth, Minnesota, from Tuesday, July 28–Thursday, July 30.
The proposed schedule (subject to change) is below.
Tuesday, July 28
- 3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and Central Seminary Representative
- 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: Central Seminary Representative
- 8:30 am – Mark Ward (and Brian Collins, in absentia)
“Sin and the Biblical Story” - 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
- 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 – Preston Mayes
“Establishing a Maximum Allowable Blood Alcohol Level According to Biblical Theological and Scientific Limits” - 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 – Ben Hicks
“Echoes of the Shema in the Letter of James” - 8:00 pm – Ice Cream Social?
Thursday, July 30
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
- 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