This page of my website is dedicated to a large and (perhaps too) ambitious project that I am working towards. The post below titled “Exploring a Baptist Tradition” explains this at length, but here is the short version: I am exploring the planning, establishment, growth, and content of Baptist seminary (post-baccalaureate) education in the Northern United States from its first schools in the early nineteenth century up until it the founding of the Northern Baptist Convention (1907). And I intend to narrate my efforts on this page.

This is a huge subject with many angles to explore, and I have done some of that in my published dissertation and in other works. As the long post explains, I have a large project in mind that I anticipate taking many years to explore, similar to what a dissertation might be, though I see this project as more ambitious. Because it is large, I anticipate offshoots and distractions along the way. My goal is to use this page of my website to narrate this exploration in all its facets. Basically, I want to carry out much of the historical process out in the open. I think this is helpful to me for at least three reasons: (1) it helps me decompress and share what I’m working on, (2) I hope it helps me connect with others who have similar or tangential interests, and (3) I want to show a little of what all the historical nitty gritty looks like in this subject.

Again, that is the short explanation. See the “Exploring a Baptist Tradition” post below for a longer explanation. Otherwise, I hope you come along for the ride, make comments, challenge my findings, and maybe learn something too.