General News

Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Thiede, who has published “Masculinity, Homoeroticism, Transness, and Yhwh: When Biblical Scholars Attempt to Rehabilitate a Violent God” in the journal Religions. This article is part of the Special Issue titled Beyond the Book: Exploring the Cultural Histories of Biblical Masculinity. You can find the article online at the following links: Website: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/2/217PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/2/217/pdf

Dr. Sherman was the featured speaker at the prestigious University of Florida endowed lecture series

Please join us in welcoming Olesia Angelova, our new Business Services Coordinator. Olesia works for both Religious Studies and Philosophy, so you can find her in either Macy 210 or Winningham 103D and always through oangelov@charlotte.edu. We are thrilled to have her on our team!

Barbara Thiede is delivering a three-part series at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Concord, NC, in which she explores Yhwh’s expression of emotions through bodily organs and his embodiment as a nonhuman animal in biblical texts. The series addresses the following pivotal questions: Can we expand our understanding of the biblical God beyond the obvious? Is the deity of the Hebrew Bible more […]

Julia Moore gave a plenary talk at the Center for Christianity and Public Life’s Annual Summit in Washington, DC on October 20, 2025. See more about the organization here.

Barbara Thiede delivered a lecture in a seminar series sponsored by the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds on October 9. The talk was titled “Not Fixing the Bible’s God: Reflections from a Rabbi and Biblical Scholar.” She also served on two panels as a respondent. 

Eric Hoenes gave the L.J. and Linda Kutten Religious Studies Lecture at the University of Nevada at Reno, hosted by the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts. The title of Hoenes’ talk was “Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith”

Julia Moore traveled to UC Irvine to present the findings of work on the history of Catawba Presbytery with UNC Charlotte Library archivist and fellow researcher Adreonna Bennett

Dr. Thiede’s newest book forthcoming from Routledge This edited volume “offers readers the opportunity to hear from prominent and influential biblical scholars and scholar activists as they reflect on their work on sexual violence vis-a-vis the Bible. This book covers major points of inquiry in the field, focusing primarily on the Hebrew Bible and the […]

October 20 in Halton Reading Room at 5:00 pm (reception) and 6:00 (lecture) Sylvester Johnson, Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University, will give a lecture on “Governing the Ethical Future of AI: Automation, Humanity, and Democracy” as part of our Phillips Lecture Series. From Northwestern’s website: Sylvester A. Johnson is Professor of Black Studies […]