Michael Willett Newheart is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Howard University School of Divinity, where he has served since 1991. His books include “My Name is Legion”: The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004), Word and Soul: A Psychological, Literary, and Cultural Reading of the Fourth Gospel (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001), and Wisdom Christology in the Fourth Gospel (San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992). Prior to coming to Howard, he taught at a college and four seminaries in Kansas City, and he served as a missionary in Costa Rica. Michael’s Ph.D. is from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He is an ordained Baptist minister and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).