Hazelip Exchange

Welcome to the Hazelip Exchange!

The Hazelip Exchange hosts live, unrecorded Zoom meetings with leaders and peers regarding the bible and ministry. Each event is an hour of conversation with fellow participants, Hazelip faculty, and Dr. John Mark Hicks about important topics in theology, Scripture, and culture. Hazelip Exchange sessions are ideal for:

Current students
Alumni
Faculty
Staff
Church ministers and members

Upcoming Events

Theological Conversations & Inquiries

Below are the Spring 2023 Hazelip Exchange events (limit 12 participants per session). You are encouraged to register for only one event per semester. Waitlist options are available during the registration process.

The Grace of Troublesome Questions

Richard Hughes made the decision when he was 23 years old to become an historian, a vocation inspired especially by his discovery that the Churches of Christ, which he had been taught had no history other than Jesus and the Apostles, had a very particular this-worldly history after all. But it wasn't until he was a graduate student at Abilene Christian College in 1966-1967 that he discovered a far deeper and far more compelling vocation--the summons to serve as one of Jesus' disciples. That discovery shook him to the core and transformed his life, his work, and his vocation.

Hosted by Scholar in Residence Richard Hughes
January 10, 2023
7-8pm CST
FREE for all participants
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The Ban: Exploring Its Ancient and Literary Context

The "Ban," God's command to Israel to destroy all the Canaanites, rightly creates concerns and raises tough questions for God's people today and for those who might otherwise be attracted to the God of Israel and the church. Rather than ignoring it or dismissing it, let's spend time trying to understand the ban in its historical and literary contexts as well as the ethical implications.

Hosted by Theology Professor Phillip Camp
January 26, 2023
7-8pm CST
FREE for all participants

Lament Psalms

Spirit Stories

This presentation tells stories from the history of Churches of Christ about how theologies of the Holy Spirit took shape and played out. One of the stories tells of a crossroads where two opposed views of the Spirit clashed and diverged- a divergence still playing out in our time. The stories show how views of the Spirit function like a litmus test for the theologies that shaped Churches of Christ.

Hosted by Dean of the College of Bible and Ministry Leonard Allen
February 21, 2023
7-8pm CST
FREE
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Gender Essentialism

After watching a clip from Abigal Favale about her book The Genesis of Gender, Lauren White and John Mark Hicks will discuss the question of gender essentialism and invite participants in the Zoom into the discussion. Are there essential differences between males and females, and what might those be if there are any?

Hosted by Assistant Professor Lauren White
March 21, 2023
7-8pm CST
FREE
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Meet the Hosts

John Mark Hicks

John Mark teaches theology and history courses. He has taught theology since 1982, including nine years at Harding University Graduate School of Religion (1991-2000). He has been at Lipscomb since 2000. He has ministered with churches in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Tennessee. He has published nine books and thirteen journal articles as well as contributed to nineteen other books.

Meet Dr. Hicks

Richard Hughes

The scholarly interests of Richard Hughes, the Center's Scholar in Residence, have ranged from religion and race in America, to religion and American self-understanding, to religion and American higher education, to the history of restorationist traditions in the United States, especially the history of Churches of Christ, to the use of narrative in teaching. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 17 books.

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Phillip Camp

Phillip Camp teaches Old Testament and Hebrew courses. He is an author, co-author and served as campus minister for churches in Nashville, Ithaca, N.Y., and Princeton, N.J. Camp currently serves as one of the preaching/teaching ministers for the Natchez Trace Church of Christ in Nashville.

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Leonard Allen

C. Leonard Allen serves as dean of the College of Bible and Ministry at Lipscomb University. He taught theology, ethics, and philosophy at the graduate and undergraduate level for over twenty years, serving as visiting professor at Biola University, adjunct professor at John Brown University and Fuller Theological Seminary, and professor at Abilene Christian University. He has lectured widely on college campuses and in churches over the past twenty-five years on biblical, historical, and theological themes.

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Lauren White

Lauren Smelser White has served as Assistant Professor of Theology at Lipscomb since 2018 and teaches various undergraduate and graduate courses in Bible and systematic, historical, and contextual theology. Dr. White’s scholarship has focused on the intersections of hermeneutic praxis, systematic theology, and theological aesthetics, and she has most recently published a book titled Flesh Made Word: The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic (Fortress Academic, 2022).

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