Cory D. Higdon (Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as Director of Theological Research at Southern Seminary and as an adjunct professor of history at Boyce College. He is a historian of American Christianity, and his research has been published in the Journal of Church and State , Puritan Reformed Journal , and has presented at the American Society of Church History and the Evangelical Theological Society. His writings can also be found at Public Discourse , Providence Magazine , and American Reformer .