Heather M. Gorman
Heather M. Gorman (PhD, Baylor University) is professor of New Testament at Johnson University, where she helps students engage deeply with the biblical text and its cultural contexts. Her scholarship focuses on the Gospels, with particular emphasis on Luke–Acts. Heather is the author of Interweaving Innocence: A Rhetorical Analysis of Luke’s Passion Narrative, a work exploring how Luke portrays the innocence of Jesus through narrative and rhetoric.
“We compel people to the table because God wants as many people as possible to respond to his invitation. This is a new social order, where the boundaries that normally exclude people no longer have value. The list of those invited in the kingdom of God is unlimited.”
— Heather Gorman & Mark Nelson, Lunchroom Theology: Pushing Tables Together in a Fractured World
