The Gospel of Mark

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale University, Prof. Bartlett was the author of numerous publications including Fact and Faith, The Shape of Scriptural Authority, Between the Bible and the Church, and What’s Good About This News? Preaching from the Gospels and Galatians, among others. He was also the co-editor of the Westminster Bible Companion and Feasting on the Word commentary series. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, USA, Prof. Bartlett served as the Senior Minister for congregations in Minnesota, Illinois, and California. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, USA, Bartlett served as the senior minister of congregations in Minnesota, Illinois, and California. From 1990 to 2005, Bartlett served at YDS on the faculty as well in administrative roles including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Dean of Academic Affairs. Bartlett published numerous books and scholarly articles. His books include such notable works as Ministry in the New Testament (Fortress-Augsburg, 1993), Romans: Westminster Bible Companion (Westminister/John Knock, 1995), and Between the Bible and the Church (Abingdon, 1999). Bartlett delivered the 2001 Beecher Lectures, entitled “What’s Good About the News?” published as What’s Good About This News?: Preaching from the Gospels and Galatians (Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.). Dr. Bartlett died in 2017. Biography

After attaining a Yale Ph.D. in New Testament Studies, Rev. Dr. Allen R. Hilton taught New Testament on the faculty of Yale Divinity School in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He then turned to church ministry, adding a decade of popular Bible teaching and preaching to lay people and pastors in churches across the country. From 2016 to the present, Dr. Hilton flies around the U.S. to help people build community across lines of political, theological, and ethnic difference as the Executive Director of House United (non-profit) and the Director of the Institute for Missional Studies at Covenant Presbyterian Church (USA) in Austin, TX. His books include a scholarly treatment of Acts 4 called Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them and A House United: How the Church Can Save the World. Dr. Hilton lives in Austin with his beloved wife Liz and has two sons at liberal arts colleges in CT. Biography