The Professor’s Puzzle is designed as a handbook for new and aspiring professors to help them transition from the independent research of their doctoral program to classroom teaching. Unfortunately, acquiring a Ph.D. does not often involve real preparation for teaching. One cannot assume that mastering content means one is qualified to teach it.
 
Drawing from years of experience training young faculty members, Professor Michael S. Lawson gathers together the best of educational research and practices, leavened with the yeast of Christian theology, so that readers are equipped to put the “teaching puzzle” together. Ideal for aspiring professors in Christian higher education, as well as all who enter the teaching profession, so that they may learn artful teaching and careful administration.

"Listen up, fellow Christian educators! The Professor's Puzzle is required reading for the guild. This hands-on, accessible text addresses our most critical issues with categorical precision. Dr. Michael Lawson, a master educator and practitioner, speaks from both classroom and administrative experience. Yet he does so with great pastoral skill. Make this THE tool for your professional development—and your personal puzzle will radically improve."
—Mark M. Yarbrough, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Dallas Theological Seminary

The Baptist Story is a narrative history of a diverse group of people spanning over four centuries, living among distinct cultures on separate continents, while finding their common identity in Christ and expressing their faith as Baptists. Baptist historians Anthony Chute, Nathan Finn, and Michael Haykin highlight the Baptist transition from a despised sect to a movement of global influence. Each chapter includes stories of people who made this history so fascinating. Although the emphasis is on the English-speaking world, The Baptist Story integrates stories of non-English speaking Baptists, ethnic minorities, women, and minority theological traditions, all within the context of historic, orthodox Christianity.
 

"The Baptists have grown from a small and mainly marginal body in seventeenth-century England into a strong and sometimes influential set of denominations across the world.  While the core of this account of their development concentrates on the history of the two-thirds of the world’s Baptists who live in the United States, there is also coverage of England, Canada, Germany, and the rest of the world.  So this volume provides a concise but comprehensive summary of the course of Baptist life over the last four centuries."
— David Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling