‘Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo Age’ Colloquium on Hypermasculinity

The Abusing God Network is an AHRC funded collaborative enterprise started in April 2022. Building on the Bible, Gender, and Church Research Centre (BGC), which was founded by Dr Holly Morse (The University of Manchester) and Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) in 2019, the Abusing God Network connects academic researchers with church and charity practitioners to …

‘From the Rising to the Setting Sun : Global Perspectives on Bible and Violence’

In their latest series of online conferences, in May 2021, the CSBV held their annual conference, this time a series of 5 sessions spread across a week. In keeping with the centre's core value of facilitating global conversations in Bible and Violence, I especially enjoyed the session on Tuesday 25th May, specifically dedicated to Majority …

‘In the Cross-hairs…’ CSBV Conference Series

'In the Cross-hairs...' is a series of online conferences hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence. The first conference, 'In the Cross-hairs: Biblical Violence in Focus' showcased student papers in May 2020, and the third in November 2020 was titled 'In the Cross-hairs: Old and New Testament Violence'. I gave …

Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence Inaugural Symposium

In June 2019, I gave a conference paper titled 'The Midrash of Lilith: A Christian Adoption of Jewish Feminist Hermeneutical Response to Violence in Women’s Narrative', at this inaugural conference at the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence. The longer, more in complex version of this was then published as a chapter …