Michael Joseph Brown is associate dean of the College and director of the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies at Wabash College. He is the author of What They Don’t Tell You: A Survivor’s Guide to Biblical Studies (Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), The Lord’s Prayer Through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2004), and Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2004).