Carolyn Whitnall

Hello! I'm Carolyn Whitnall. Eventually I'll actually make this site, but for now:

• I'm currently doing a PhD in theology with Aberdeen University via Bristol Baptist College, where I'm part of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.

  • • Paper in the Journal for the Study of Bible and Violence (Volume 1, December 2022): "In the Presence of Whose Enemies?: A Discourse Analysis of a Popular Christian Song in the Context of a “Worship Protest”" 

    • Forthcoming in the JSBV: "The Seven Mountain Mandate: A Case Study in “New Apostolic” Approaches to Scripture"

    • Paper presented at the CSBV "Empire Colloquium," June 2024: "Whose Kingdom Come? Competing Visions of Biblical Socio-Political Responsibility Under an Empire of Global Capital"

    • Short paper presented in the Theological Ethics stream at SST, April 2025: "Positivity as a Moral Obligation in Bill Johnson's "Normal Christian Life""

• I also write poems, some of which have been published:

  • • "Please Put Your Seats in the Upright Position," at Second Chance Lit.

    • "Ecclesiography," in The Other Journal.

    • "Hermeneutics I," in The Anglican Theological Review.

    • "Prehistory," in The Anglican Theological Review.

• Increasingly infrequently I blog here (which is also home to some of my other poems).

• Once upon a time I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Cryptography Group at the University of Bristol.

  • • Some publications from that time can be found on my DBLP page.

• For added confusion, my most-cited publications are in the field of econometrics, from a brief early stint as a research assistant at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation.