Matthew Steven Bracey

Co-founder, Senior Editor, Senior Contributor

Matthew Steven Bracey and his wife Sarah live in Cross Plains, Tennessee. They attend Sylvan Park Free Will Baptist Church, where they are involved in ministry. Matthew works at Welch College, where he serves as the Vice Provost for Academic Administration, Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture, and cross-country coach. Matthew holds degrees from Cumberland School of Law (J.D.), Beeson Divinity School (M.T.S.), and Welch College (B.A., History, Biblical Studies). He is currently pursuing Ph.D. studies in Christian Ethics Public Policy with a Christian Philosophy minor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is presently writing his dissertation on Edmund Burke and the moral imagination.

He is a co-founder and Senior Editor of the Helwys Society Forum (thehsf.com). He is an editor and/or contributor of several books, including Sexuality, Gender, and the Church: A Christian Response in the New Cultural Landscape (Welch College Press, 2016), The Promise of Arminian Theology (Randall House Academic, 2016), Secularism and the American Republic by F. Leroy Forlines (Welch College Press, 2022), and Christians in Culture: Cultivating a Christian Worldview for All of Life (Welch College Press, 2023).

He has written a number of peer-reviewed articles and/or book reviews in journals such as the Biblical Higher Education Journal, D6 Family Ministry Journal, Evangelical Quarterly, Integrity, and The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, as well as popular articles in publications like Books at a Glance, Christian Academia Magazine, FUSION, ONE Magazine, and The Brink Magazine. His interests include cycling and running, ethics, gardening, history, law and politics, and theology.

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