BIO:

Jacob Randolph is the Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University. Jacob is a cultural and religious historian whose research focuses on imagination, gender, and identity formation in medieval and early modern religious communities. His current book project, Medieval Chivalry and the Making of Anabaptist Identity, 1525-1550, explores how the social phenomenon of medieval chivalry contributed to religious identities among Anabaptist leaders in the sixteenth century. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals including Church History, Baptist History and Heritage, Church History and Religious Culture, and Fides et Historia. He has also contributed analysis pieces to Baptist News Global and Baptist Standard.

When he’s not blogging for The Anxious Bench, you can find Jacob fishing the local streams or ponds in Oklahoma or on Twitter @j_rhett.