Research and Scholarship

Faculty, Students and Alumni

 

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College of Arts and Sciences

Shirley, Taten. Objective Values in the Information Age: Preserving Humanity with C.S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man

Shirley, Taten. "No Shortcut to Virtue: Rousseau’s Defense against Technology". Place of Publication: Lamar Journal for the Humanities.

Shirley, Taten. “Daughter-Mother Understanding: Empathy as Key in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club”. Place of Publication: Identities in Transit volume of Laboratory of Values, Society, and Development
Shirley, Taten. The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women in a Turbulent Age

Jewell, Jason. Educating for Life in This World: The Role of the Humanities in the 21st-Century Christian Academy. Place of Publication: Journal of Faith and the Academy

Jewell, Jason. The Extent of Russell Kirk's Support for the Free Market. 

Jewell, Jason. "Spiritual Quest in a Scientific Age," in The Inklings and King Arthur

Jewell, Jason. Not Letting a Crisis Go to Waste: Statehood, Reformers, and the Historians. Place of Publication: Journal of Prices and Markets.

Jewell, Jason. Wesley McDonald's "Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology"

Jewell, Jason. Deirdre McCloskey's "Bourgeois Virtue"

Afangideh, Uduak. My Biology Notebook: A Student Manual for Non-major's Biology (3rd edition)

College of Biblical Studies

Houston, Josh. Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores.

Bailey, Randall. The College Press NIV Commentary: Old Testament Introduction

Bailey, Randall. The College Press NIV Commentary: Exodus

Bailey, Randall. Improving Your Prayer Life Through a Study of the Psalter

Bailey, Randall. Elijah and Elisha: The Chariots and Horses of Israel in the Context of ANE Chariot Warfare. Please of Publication: ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΑ

Bailey, Randall. Jeremiah: Fortified City, Bronze Walls, and Iron Pillar against the Whole Land

Hester, David. Review of Zach Hunt, "Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets it Wrong". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Review of R. B. Jamieson and Tyler R. Wittmann, "Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Review of Colin Brown (with Craig A. Evans), "A History of the Quest for the Historical Jesus". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Does Mark 16:9-20 Belong in the New Testament?. Wipf & Stock

Hester, David. Jesus Christ: A Thematic Study. Wipf & Stock

Brenneman, Todd. “Where the Scriptures Speak, We Speak”: The Pennsylvania Frontier and the Origins of the Disciples of Christ. Place of Publication: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.

Brenneman, Todd. "Evangelical Christianity". Place of Publication: Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States. 

Brenneman, Todd. "Promoting Simple Evangelical Christianity: The Rise of the Disciples of Christ in Western Pennsylvania". Place of Publication: Pennsylvania Historical Association.

Brenneman, Todd. "The Balancing Act of Evangelical Biblical Scholarship". Place of Publication: Christian Scholars Conference. 

Wages, Steve. Wages, S. A. (2024). Connecting parents, children, and youth ministry. In W. K. Brothers (Ed.), In Christ's image: A guide to youth and family ministry (pp. 88-102). Heritage Christian Leadership Institute, 2024.

College of Education

Brenneman, Mark: Where's the Peanut Butter? Journaling about Science Practices in Everyday Life

Brenneman, Mark. Teaching Sublimation with Markers! Science Scope

College of Health Sciences

Name:
Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Addressing the Lack of Professional Values and Behaviors Among New Nurses

Submit a link to your publication:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00185868.2022.2090475


Name:
Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Language Proficiency and Academic Success of Bilingual Hispanic Nursing Students along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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https://doi.org/10.47988/janany.4491588158643655.2.22090475


Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Language Proficiency and Academic Success of Bilingual Hispanic Nursing Students along the U.S.-Mexico Border

https://doi.org/10.47988/janany.4491588158643655.2.2


Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Exclusive Human Milk Diets and the Reduction of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

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https://journals.lww.com/advancesinneonatalcare/abstract/2024/10000/exclusive_human_milk_diets_and_the_reduction_of.4.aspx.2.2


Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Addressing the Shortage of Academic Nurse Educators: Suggestions for Educational Institutions.

Submit a link to your publication
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38602384/


Thompson, Cody. Determining the Lifetime Return on Investment of a Career in Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy – An Educational and Financial Analysis


Thompson, Cody. Comparison of the Validity of the Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) and Activities-specific Balance Confidence Questionnaire (ABC) to the ‘Gold Standard’ Berg Balance Scale (BBS) in Assessing Fall Risk in the Elderly Population


Thompson, Cody. Case Report: Differential Diagnosis of a Complex Postpartum Patient with Cardiac Symptoms


Thompson, Cody. Rehabilitation Considerations for Post-Surgical Patients During the COVID-19 Crisis


Petosky, Theresa: Self‐acknowledged limitations in exercise therapy trials for low back pain. 


Bethany Phelps

Title of Work:
Historical Voices in Nursing: A Faculty Reenactment


Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Historical Voices in Nursing: A Faculty Reenactment


Shellye Vardaman

Title of Work:
Use of Research Evidence and Anecdotal Experiences in Addressing the Shortage of Academic Nurse Educators

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2025.08.005


Andrea Etkie

Title of Work:
Visual Attention to Print During Shared Reading With Children With Rett Syndrome: The Feasibility of a Remote Research Protocol

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https://link.growkudos.com/1e0070b6iv4 or https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-24-00310

Jones School of Law

DeBoer, Michael. State Constitutions and State Abortion Laws After Dobbs

Otey, Melvin. A Modern Reflection on Premodern Allegory

Otey, Melvin. The Ancient Pedigree of Homosexuality as the Sin of Sodom

Otey, Melvin. What Churches Should Do When Civil Authorities Restrict their Assemblies. Place of Publication: Theology Today.

Otey, Melvin. Jesus’ High Priestly Inquisitor in John Eighteen

Otey, Melvin. What Christians Need to Know About “Legalized” Marijuana

DeBoer, Michael. Religious Conscience Protections in American State Constitutions, in Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction

Otey, Melvin. Witness Sequestration and the Failure of Proof in Jesus’s Sanhedrin Trial (Mark 14:55–59). Place of Publication: Restoration Quarterly.

Otey, Melvin. Toward Improving Policing in African American Communities 

Otey, Melvin. The Propriety of Multiple Meanings in Scripture. Place of Publication: Restoration Quarterly.

Otey, Melvin. Why RICO’s Extraterritorial Reach Is Properly Coextensive with the Reach of Its Predicates

Otey, Melvin. Toward Improving Policing in African American Communities

Otey, Melvin. A Paradigm for the Proper Use of Pre-Majority Conduct in Prosecuting Continuing Crimes

Otey, Melvin. The Vexing Case of Venue for Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering

Otey, Melvin. Does Motive Also Follow the Bullet? Transferred Intent and Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering

Otey, Melvin. Jesus's Objections During His Preliminary Examination and Modern Notions of Due Process

Otey, Melvin. To Punish or Not to Punish: Juveniles Offenders and Murder in Aid of Racketeering

Otey, Melvin. Luke’s Invitation to a Life of Prayer

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Alumni Submissions


Houston, Josh. Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores

Submission by Joshua Houston

Submission Category
  Alumni
College and Department
  College of Biblical Studies
Type of Work (peer-reviewed journal article, monograph, poetry, musical composition, etc.)
  peer-reviewed journal article
Title of Work
  Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores
Place of Publication (e.g. journal title, university press)
  Religions
Year of Publication
  2024
  https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/8/935

Staff and Faculty Submissions


Submissions

Shirley, Taten. Objective Values in the Information Age: Preserving Humanity with C.S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man

Shirley, Taten. "No Shortcut to Virtue: Rousseau’s Defense against Technology". Place of Publication: Lamar Journal for the Humanities.

Shirley, Taten. “Daughter-Mother Understanding: Empathy as Key in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club”. Place of Publication: Identities in Transit volume of Laboratory of Values, Society, and Development
Shirley, Taten. The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women in a Turbulent Age

Jewell, Jason. Educating for Life in This World: The Role of the Humanities in the 21st-Century Christian Academy. Place of Publication: Journal of Faith and the Academy

Jewell, Jason. The Extent of Russell Kirk's Support for the Free Market. 

Houston, Josh. Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores.

Bailey, Randall. The College Press NIV Commentary: Old Testament Introduction

Bailey, Randall. The College Press NIV Commentary: Exodus

Bailey, Randall. Improving Your Prayer Life Through a Study of the Psalter

Bailey, Randall. Elijah and Elisha: The Chariots and Horses of Israel in the Context of ANE Chariot Warfare. Please of Publication: ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΑ

Bailey, Randall. Jeremiah: Fortified City, Bronze Walls, and Iron Pillar against the Whole Land

Hester, David. Review of Zach Hunt, "Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets it Wrong". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Review of R. B. Jamieson and Tyler R. Wittmann, "Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Review of Colin Brown (with Craig A. Evans), "A History of the Quest for the Historical Jesus". Stone-Campbell Journal

Hester, David. Does Mark 16:9-20 Belong in the New Testament?. Wipf & Stock

Hester, David. Jesus Christ: A Thematic Study. Wipf & Stock

Brenneman, Mark: Where's the Peanut Butter? Journaling about Science Practices in Everyday Life

Brenneman, Mark. Teaching Sublimation with Markers! Science Scope

Shellye Vardaman https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00185868.2022.2090475

Shellye Vardaman https://doi.org/10.47988/janany.4491588158643655.2.22090475

Shellye Vardaman https://doi.org/10.47988/janany.4491588158643655.2.2

Shellye Vardaman https://journals.lww.com/advancesinneonatalcare/abstract/2024/10000/exclusive_human_milk_diets_and_the_reduction_of.4.aspx.2.2

Shellye Vardaman https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38602384/

DeBoer, Michael. State Constitutions and State Abortion Laws After Dobbs

Otey, Melvin. A Modern Reflection on Premodern Allegory

Otey, Melvin. The Ancient Pedigree of Homosexuality as the Sin of Sodom

Otey, Melvin. What Churches Should Do When Civil Authorities Restrict their Assemblies. Place of Publication: Theology Today.

Otey, Melvin. Jesus’ High Priestly Inquisitor in John Eighteen

Otey, Melvin. What Christians Need to Know About “Legalized” Marijuana

Otey, Melvin. Witness Sequestration and the Failure of Proof in Jesus’s Sanhedrin Trial (Mark 14:55–59). Place of Publication: Restoration Quarterly.

Otey, Melvin. The Propriety of Multiple Meanings in Scripture. Place of Publication: Restoration Quarterly.

Bond, Justin. Developing an Inclusive Education Game Using a Design Science Research Gestalt Method

Jewell, Jason. Not Letting a Crisis Go to Waste: Statehood, Reformers, and the Historians. Place of Publication: Journal of Prices and Markets.

Cantrell, Tiffany. Spiritual Formation in Online Classes, Alabama Instructional Design Network, 2019.

Cantrell, Tiffany. University 101: Move Beyond Boring, Blackboard World, 2019.

Cantrell, Tiffany. Engaging Students Online through Flipped Orientations and Missional Connections, Blackboard World, 2020.

Evans, Nathan, Exploring Student Connectedness in the Hybrid Asynchronous Delivery Model

Jones, Christi, Exploring Student Connectedness in the Hybrid Asynchronous Delivery Model

Dickinson, Christian, Mistaken Identities and Other Failures of Observation: Thematic Unity in Sketches by Boz, 2025

Cooper, William, Psychological Factors Impacting Travel Decisions From China to the United States, 2025. forthcoming; I am the co-author on this paper with one of my professors, Dr. Khandokar Istiak. It was just accepted for publication.

Stark, J. David, “Figuring Things Out: Lyric Ressourcement for Figural Readings of Biblical Literature in the Contemporary Academy.” 2014

Stark, J. David, “Figuring Things Out: Lyric Ressourcement for Figural Readings of Biblical Literature in the Contemporary Academy.” 2015

Stark, J. David, “What Makes Jewish Scripture Christian?” 2016

Stark, J. David, “Rewriting Torah Obedience in Romans for the Church,” 2017

Stark, J. David, “Being Present at a Distance.” 2018

Stark, J. David, “Why the Christian University? Reflections on the Comprehensiveness of Jesus’s Two-fold Love Command.” 2018

Stark, J. David, “Gaming the System: Online Spiritual Formation in Christian Higher Education.” 2019

Stark, J. David, ‘Play’: An Approach to Spiritual Formation in Online Christian Higher Education.” 2019

Stark, J. David, “‘To Your Seed I Will Give …’: the Land(s) Promised to Abraham in Genesis and Second Temple Judaism.” 2020

Stark, J. David, “Understanding Scripture through Apostolic Proclamation.” 2020

Stark, J. David, “Biblical Scholarship Is Play.” 2022

Stark, J. David, “Gentile People or Gentile Places? Romans 1:13–14 and the Letter’s Implied Audience.” 2022

Stark, J. David, “Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Paul’s Hermeneutic: A Proposal for Understanding Paul’s Interpretive Logic.”

Stark, J. David, “Traditional Conflict Management: How Early Interpreters Address Paul’s Reference to Those Baptized for the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:29).” 2022

Stark, J. David, “The Imperative to ‘Make America Great Again’: A Brief History. 2024

Stark, J. David, “John Chrysostom’s Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:29 as an Invitation to Intersubjectivity.” 2024

Cantrell Tiffany, Enhancing Academic Integrity. 2024

Cantrell Tiffany, From Vision to Virtual: Strategies for Aligning University Mission with Online Course Content. 2024

Student Submissions


Submissions

*All submissions are subject to review by Faulkner University. A submission does not guarantee that any scholarly work will be posted. Faulkner University reserves the right to remove any submissions that are not compatible with the Here we Stand statement.

Olivia McDaniel, Music Major

I chose Faulkner because I wanted to attend a school that focused on Christian living and could teach me how to live as a Christian within my profession while helping me to grow my faith.

Closeup Olivia McDanielOlivia McDaniel, Music Major

Victoria McDaniel, Liberal Arts Major

After being in the Great Books program, I knew it was something I wanted to do forever. I fell in love with philosophy, theology and writing. I can’t imagine my life without books and I want to be surrounded by them forever.

Closeup of Victoria McDanielVictoria McDaniel, Liberal Arts Major

Ashley Cleveland, Accounting Major

When I visited Faulkner, I met with a professor in the college of business, who told me about my opportunity to show my faith through my occupation. I had never thought of that before. He prayed with my mom and me that I would find the direction for my life. That tour was different than any other university tour I had been on.

Young Woman Named AshleyAshley Cleveland, Accounting Major