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Senior Research Fellow

Dr Lon Graham

PhD (IBTS; VU Amsterdam)

Lon is the Vice President at New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home and Family Ministries and Book Review Editor for the Journal of European Baptist Studies. He is also the Co-Organiser of the annual IBTS Colloquium

Research Interests

Baptist history and identity

Publications

“All Who Love Our Blessed Redeemer”: The Catholicity of John Ryland Jr. (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022).

Articles

“Editorial: Baptists and Ecumenism.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 23.1 (Spring 2023), vii-x.

“Catholicity and Ecumenism: Learning from the Life and Practice of John Ryland Jr.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 23.1 (Spring 2023), 121-134.

"'A Union of Sentiments in Apostolical Doctrines’: The Catholicity of Andrew Fuller.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 21.1 (2021), pp. 105-122.

“Editorial: Baptist Identity.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 22.1 (Spring 2022), pp. v-ix.

“Tribute to Anthony R. Cross.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 22.1 (Spring 2022), pp. xi-xii.

“‘Don’t Mess with Texas’: Baptist Identity in Controversy.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 22.1 (Spring 2022), pp. 59-76.

“John Collett Ryland, Daniel Turner, and A Modest Plea.” Baptist Quarterly 52.1 (January 2021), pp. 34-42.

“‘The Dearest of Women is Gone’: A Historical Study of Grief in the Life of John Ryland Jr.’ Journal of European Baptist Studies 19.2 (September 2019), pp. 66-83.

“A Showdown or a Put Down: Rethinking an Incident from Early Baptist Mission History.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 18.2 (Autumn 2018), pp. 7–18.

Book Chapters

“Forty Years of Friendship: The Letters of John Ryland Jr to John Sutcliff.” In Michael A. G. Haykin, ed. “A Deep Spiritual Well”: Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals and Their Legacy (Cambridge, Ontario: Heritage Seminary Press, 2025).

“Church Discipline and Gender in Eighteenth-Century English Baptist Life.” In Melody Maxwell and Laine Scales, eds. Baptists and Gender (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2023).

“‘Richly are thy children fed’: Dr John Ryland’s Understanding of the Lord’s Supper.” In Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson, eds. Baptist Sacramentalism 3 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2020), pp. 101-121.