Joey Cochran is the editor of the Anxious Bench. Previously, he taught at Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL), and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL), and currently he teaches at Purdue University, Northwest. He is the Social Media Coordinator for the Conference on Faith and History.
Cochran holds a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary (New Testament/Pastoral Leadership) and a Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Church History and History of Christian Thought). He is a pastoral alum of Calvary Memorial Church (Oak Park) and a fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians. During doctoral studies, he was the assistant director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Cochran is the author of Jonathan Edwards and Hebrews (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, January 2025), which “Jonathan Edwards’s Harmonic Interpretation of Hebrews 12:22–24,” and “Jonathan Edwards and His World of Harmony” both from Yale’s Jonathan Edwards Studies, introduces this work. He is also the author of the forthcoming Brand Evangelicals (Brazos Press, 2026).
In addition to expertise on Jonathan Edwards, Cochran has research interests across the Atlantic World, which include transatlantic histories of witch-hunting, Indigenous contact between Natives and colonial New England missionaries, early transatlantic revivalism and evangelical history, and the long history of American Christian intellectual thought. He has contributed to Fides et Historia, The Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology, and Christianity Today.
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