Julia Lambert Fogg

Julia Lambert Fogg, Ph.D.

Professor

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Office Hours: by appointment

About

The Rev. Dr. Julia Lambert Fogg is a full Professor in the Religion Department. She specializes in the New Testament, first century Christianity, theologies from the margins, border crossing narratives, and cross-cultural reading practices. Named Professor of the Year by CLU class of 2008, she led the Religion department for 7 years as Chair (2009-2016). She has also served in faculty governance as Faculty Assembly chair and as Chair of the inaugural CLU Faculty Senate (2020-21).

In her teaching Dr. Fogg follows culturally responsive pedagogies and attends to neurodiversity in student learning practices. She works to develop innovative, immersive, and relational pedagogical methods, and employs experiential learning to take students on community visits in courses like Pauline letters, Global Jesus, New Testament, and Liberation Theology. She believes that learning is most transformative when we step outside our comfort zones to engage people and communities who are different from us. 

Dr. Fogg's current research focuses on strategies for building communities across divisions and diversity (book project tentatively titled, Creating Bodies: St. Paul's Strategies for Saving Communities). Her first book, Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors focuses on biblical readings from the margins (Baker-Brazos Press. April 2020). Here she examines border crossing narratives in the gospels and shows how these narratives illumine and are illumined by the experiences of young Latino/a immigrants who crossed borders to arrive in Southern California.

In earlier work on Paul’s letters, especially Philippians, Dr. Fogg argues that Paul understands salvation in terms of a present and future, material and spiritual, social communion between Christ and his followers embodied in their concrete daily practices. This puts community life at the center of theology and engaged practices.

Dr. Fogg has taught for 8 years in the Lutheran Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM) program at CLU's seminary, PLTS in Berkeley. And she has written for Working Preacher.org in Spanish and Vocation Matters. She also completed a teaching project with Leadership Foundations, and serves on the board of nonprofit farm working for farmworker, land, and food justice, The Abundant Table in Ventura County.

Education

Ph.D., Emory University, Graduate Division of Religion, May 2006

Th.M. (cum Laude), Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1997

M.Div. Yale Divinity School, 1996

B.A. (magna cum laude) Spanish Literature, Colgate University, 1992

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Kappa Sigma

Expertise

Primary:

Cultural & Literary Readings of the New Testament

Pauline Theology & Interpretation

Liberation Theologies

Biblical Theologies of Community

Immigration, Border Crossing & Community Identity

Biblical Greek

 Secondary:

The Social World of First Century Mediterranean Cultures

The Art & Culture of Global Jesus

Revelation & Empire

 

Publications

Showers Lecture, Indianapolis University, March 8, 2023.


Book publication: April 2020


Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors. Baker Brazos Publishing. Available April 2020.


This book explores contemporary US immigrant, dreamer, and deportee narratives in conversation with Jesus’s border crossing narratives in the Gospels and Paul’s border crossing and detention experiences in the New Testament Letters. I argue that Jesus, like many family members living among Christian communities today, crossed the social, political, ethnic, and geographical borders that so many have experienced today. Paul experienced incarceration for crossing social and political borders and articulates a Christology of border crossing out of that experience. Because Jesus crossed these borders we, as Jesus’s followers, should welcome those who also cross borders, learn from their experiences, and cultivate the skill of crossing borders to step out of our own geographic, ethnic, religious comfort zones to meet others in Christ.


Presidential Address: March 2020 Society of Biblical Literature, Pacific Coast Region (recorded on line)


On Account of This Word: The Crucible of Mark 7:24-30


Book Chapters


Immigration, Migration and Border Crossing: Scenarios from the College Classroom.” Chapter 15 in Global Lutheranism: Vitality and Challenges. Edited by Peter Vethanayagamony and F. Voelker Griefenhagen. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lutheran University Press, 2018.


“Philippians.” Pages 543-556. In The New Testament Fortress Commentary on the Bible. Edited by Margaret Aymer, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, David A. Sánchez. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.


“All the Senses of Revelation 8: Experiencing First Century Rhetorical Strategies,” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, (ed. Patrick Gray and Mark Roncace; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, November 2005).


“Paul’s Letter to the Philippians: A Lesson in Citizenship,” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, (ed. Patrick Gray and Mark Roncace; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, November 2005).


“Visual Exegesis: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation,” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, (ed. Patrick Gray and Mark Roncace; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, November 2005).


Articles in Biblical Commentaries


“Galatians,” The CEB Women’s Bible. Edited by Jaime Clark-Soles: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House, 2016.


“Ephesians,” The CEB Women’s Bible. Edited by Jaime Clark-Soles: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House, 2016.


“Colossians,” The CEB Women’s Bible. Edited by Jaime Clark-Soles: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House, 2016.


“Mark,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“2 Corinthians,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“1 Thessalonians,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“2 Thessalonians,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“Galatians,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“Philippians,” “James,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


“James,” The CEB Student Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Corrie. Nashville, TN: Contemporary English Bible, UMC Publishing House. August 2015.


 On-Line Journals


“Comentario del San Juan 18:1-19:42,” April 19, 2019. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertsen. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=4030


“Comentario del San Juan 20:1-18,” April 21, 2019. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertsen. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=4044


“Comentario del San Juan 20:19-31,” April 28, 2019. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertsen. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=4045


“Comentario del San Juan 21:1-19,” May 5, 2019. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertsen. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=4046


“Comentario del San Juan 1:1-9 (10-18),” January 3, 2016. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertsen. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2743


“Comentario del San Lucas 2:1-14, (15-20),” Dec 24, 2015. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertson.  http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2738


“Comentario del San Lucas 2:41-52,” Dec 27, 2015.Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertson. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2739


“Comentario del San Juan 1:1-9 (10-18),” January 3, 2016. Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertson. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2743


“Comentario del San Mateo 2:1-12,” January 6, 2016.Working Preacher Commentary, an on-line journal en español. Edited by Andrés Albertson. http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2740


 “A Response to ‘Personalized vs. Parallel Eating,’” Leaven: Vol 20:1 (2012): article 5. Available at: http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/leaven/vol20/iss1/5


 On-Line Pedagogical Resources   


“God’s Story in Scripture: Border Crossing.” The Practice Discipleship Initiative written for The Network, and presented at Extravaganza Youth Conference, Jan 2015. Available on-line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raC4vmz4Lp8&feature=youtu.be.


 “Story in Scripture.” The Practice Discipleship Initiative, March 3, 2015. http://www.elcayouthministrynetwork.wildapricot.org/pdproject


 “Prepping Class with Newspaper in Hand.” Seminarium: Elements of Great Teaching, August 25 2014. http://www.highly.co/hl/541230186c696c5b21120000,. 


 “Sustainable Service Learning: A SLO Transformation.” Seminarium: Elements of Great Teaching, July 11, 2014, http://seminariumblog.org/general/semclass/sustainable-service-learning/.


Creation of on-line and in-class Teaching Materials for Introducing the New Testament: A Historical Literary and Theological Survey, by Mark Allen Powell, Baker Publishing, 2009.


 Encyclopedic Entries


 “Antioch.” Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible Odyssey. June 2014, http://www.bibleodyssey.org/places/main-articles/antioch.aspx

Grant Funding

Most recent awards

2022   Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for undergraduate student research in humanities

2022   Foster Family Fellowship for undergraduate student research in religion and theology

2021   Foster Family Fellowship for undergraduate student research in religion and theology

2020    $5,000.00 Faculty Research and Creative Work Fellowship, CLU

2019    $1,500.00 Community Leaders Association Grant, CLU

2019    President’s Diversity mini grant awarded for Homelessness and Housing Crisis at Hope Hollywood Lutheran Church, CLU

2018    $1,500.00 Community Leaders Association Grant, CLU

2017    President’s Diversity mini grant awarded for Homelessness and Housing Crisis at Hope Hollywood Lutheran Church, CLU

2012    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, CLU

2011    Wabash Teaching Grant

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