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Fight or Flight? The 2019 Touchstone Conference
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Duration: 36:08 — Talk delivered on Saturday, October 12, 2019 — SESSION 5
The Benedictine Preacher
—S. M. Hutchens—
Touchstone Senior Editor
This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the transcript here.
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor of Touchstone. A protégé of Harold O. J. Brown, he was ordained in a Congregationalist church in 1984, has studied at numerous graduate schools of theology, liberal and conservative, Protestant and Catholic, and received a Ph.D. in theology under Carl Braaten for a dissertation on Karl Barth and Carl F. H. Henry. Most of his published work has appeared in Touchstone, but he has written essays and reviews for numerous publications and weblogs. Selections from his writings will be found in his forthcoming book, The Tumult of Her Wars.
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