General News

Please join us for the 41st Witherspoon Lecture: “Mirroring Knowledge Across India and Europe in the Nineteenth Century” Monday, March 23; 5:30 p.m. with light refreshments at 4 p.m.; Cone University Center, McKnight Auditorium & Lucas Room RSVP here The nineteenth century’s dramatic changes—fueled by colonialism and technology—led to differences in how people thought. In […]

Students and faculty will gather together on Monday, February 23, from 12:30-2:30 in Macy 110. We hope to see you there!

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