Haley Jacob, PhD (University of St Andrews) is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Theology at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, where she teaches courses that focus on biblical theology and Paul’s epistles. She is the author of Conformed to the Image of His Son: Reconsidering Paul’s Theology of Glory in Romans and The Preacher’s Greek Companion to Colossians. Christianity Today named her one of “10 New or Lesser-Known Female Theologians Worth Knowing.” She is married to Alan and has two children, Phoebe and Brooks. When not teaching, sending endless emails, or washing sand out of children’s hair, she can be found in her garden or pretending to be an amateur woodworker. But such moments are so fleeting, one might question whether they even exist.

In our time together, we’ll take a close look at the “Romans Road,” a traditional evangelistic tool often used by believers to share the central tenets of the Christian faith or the gospel with non-believers. While winsome in a former age of religious adherence, this traditional series of selected verses no longer strikes the same chord in post-Christian America as it once did. Not only this, but it can be argued that the traditional Romans Road never offered an accurate depiction of the key themes of Paul’s gospel in Romans, nor an accurate depiction of the key themes of the gospel in the New Testament, nor even those of the wider biblical witness. Can a better Romans Road be found, one that does justice to the gospel of Romans, the New Testament, and the biblical narrative of redemption at large? And, can a revised Romans Roman be articulated that actually speaks to the real-life questions people are asking of themselves, their Christian leaders, and of God today? We’ll explore these questions and attempt to lay the groundwork for a revised Romans Road, one that both does justice to the biblical text and that speaks to the socio-political-theological realities of our world today.