The Gospel of Mark and Christian Politics

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January 21, 2026 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Weekly On Wednesday For 3 Times

Online Via Zoom

In this moment in the United States, when some Christians are embracing Christian nationalism and Christian supremacy, how can other Christians model a different public witness? In this minicourse, ICJS senior Christian scholar Matthew D. Taylor will explore the Gospel of Mark—the earliest of the Christian Gospels—through historical and contextual lenses to uncover its vision of a Christian politics rooted in servanthood, sacrifice, and resistance to tyranny.

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Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D. | Moderator

Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D., is the Christian scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religious politics. His book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy (Broadleaf, 2024), tracks how a loose network of charismatic Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation was a major instigating force for the January 6th Insurrection and is currently reshaping the culture of the religious right in the U.S. He is also the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge, 2023). His current projects include Defying Tyrants and a podcast on resisting religious nationalism. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from Fuller Seminary.