Who, What, Where?

In what someone called “an increasingly unusual and almost unAmerican story,” I have worked forty years at one school, in one neighborhood, serving in a variety of roles at McCormick Theological Seminary. My wife and I live ten minutes walk from my school, and we each know these corners and blocks and walkways because we have walked them together for decades and with our family. I studied at the University of Chicago, and I teach and study with seminarians in Hyde Park at McCormick Seminary, at Stateville Penitentiary, and at Logan Correctional Center.

My training centered in the broad Reformed tradition and New and Old School Presbyterian history in the decades before the American Civil War. While my teaching continues in these areas, in recent years three quite distinct themes have been central in organizing my study and teaching: the history of early or “classical” Islam, the extensive literary traditions of the Early Church Mothers and Fathers, and the many tasks of dismantling the carceral state.

Estoy listo para recibir y leer sus textos en español, y si habla lo suficientemente lento para mis limitaciones lingüísticas, ¡también podemos hablar!