All of a sudden here at R&T, we are being hit by a veritable flood of theologians from Baylor University. Make that two. (Hey, in a group of nine, two is a lot.) A little while back we welcomed Paul Martens. Now I am pleased to welcome Myles Werntz.

He is a doctoral candidate in religion at Baylor University, and is currently writing a dissertation entitled Ontology, Ecclesiology, Nonviolence. He describes it as “exploring the interrelationship of ontological grounding of nonviolence through ecclesial bodies in the work of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.” That’s going to make a lot of our R&T readers salivate, and more than a few scratch their heads, but no doubt Myles will be teaching us about these things as time goes by.

Myles is the co-editor of Nonviolence: A Brief History (Baylor University Press, 2010), a set of lectures by the late John Howard Yoder, and writes on issues of ecclesiology, war, and poverty.

His rock path has been a lively one. He reports that his musical pilgrimage began in the throes of the Contemporary Christian Music world of Whitecross and Whiteheart, which was followed by a conversion to Pearl Jam in the early 1990s, a calling he continues to work out in the works of diverse conversation partners such as Bruce Springsteen, Frightened Rabbit, and Talib Kweli. Musically, he plays acoustic guitar badly, and drives fast when Alice in Chains comes on the radio. In his spare time, he blogs on film over at The Three Hands, when not teaching, writing, reading, running, or hanging out with his wife Sarah. Welcome, Myles!