Hannah James and Harvey Cawdron Introduction On the 24th of October 2025, two of the fellows participating in the cross-training fellowship, Hannah James and Harvey Cawdron, discussed their work on the fellowship with staff and PhD students in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews. As part of this, they discussed 5 […]

Posters are a very common form of research dissemination at scientific conferences. For those embarking on doctorates or working in academia within scientific disciplines the expectations of presenting a poster either at one’s institution or while attending a conference is common practice. In theology however, it is unheard of. A burgeoning academic within theology would […]

BY: Dr. Janice McRandal | November 13, 2025 A professional athlete secures an important victory. Naturally they are excited and want to celebrate. They post 8 pictures to their 105,000 followers on Instagram, each capturing a significant moment in their victory. One image shows her grappling her opponent, ready to pounce. Another shows a perfectly timed […]

BY: Dr. Scott Donahue-Martens | November 10, 2025 When I applied to the cross-training programme, I hoped the experience would provide an opportunity to gain additional competence and experience reading both quantitative and qualitative research. I had utilized several empirical studies on intercultural competency and survey data on race in my dissertation. Reading that literature was […]

BY: Dr. Amanda Murjan | October 21, 2025 My fellowship project explores the White Garment Church, an African (mainly Nigerian) Independent Church. This was an unplanned collaboration; the original proposal aimed to work with the police. Studying African Indigenous Christianity, worldviews, and cosmologies is entirely new territory for me, and I have been thoroughly captivated. […]

BY: Rev. Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba | October 6, 2025 The African continent is referred to as a young continent, with an overall median age of 19.3 years old according to some statistics. As of 2023, Niger, Uganda, Angola and Mali are the youngest African countries with median ages of 15.1, 16.1, 16.2 and 16.3 […]

BY: Dr. Cliff Guthrie | October 6, 2025 Back when my day job was teaching practical theology for a small, progressive theological seminary in Maine, I often taught a course I called “God and Gray Matter.”  The early 2000s were perhaps the high-water mark of what was then known as the “dialogue” between science and […]

BY: Dr. Alison Woolley, Dr. Allen Jorgenson, & Dr. Steve Taylor | September 22, 2025 Interviews are a common resource for those researching theology and psychology. It is tempting  to approach the interview in a utilitarian way, as a method for gathering data by asking questions. Yet in real time, we as researchers experienced interruptive […]

BY: Dr. Carmen Callizo Romero & Dr. Shoko Watanabe | July 14, 2025 During Easter, when Carmen was back in her hometown in Murcia, she sent me (Shoko) a photo capturing the procession of the Salzillos—one of the most famous Semana Santa traditions in Spain, where statues carved by the Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo Alcaraz, […]

BY: Dr. Peter Kline | June 20, 2025 “To know in a general and confused way that God exists is implanted in us by nature.” – Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica “[The human being] has an unconscious […]; [it] has an originary relation to the enigma of the other.” – Jean Laplanche, Après-Coup Is there something […]