Hello, and welcome to Higgaion, my weblog! I’m Chris Heard, Associate Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University. I’m also Rene’s husband, Nathan’s and Nicholas’s father, lifelong member of Churches of Christ, Star Trek fan, Anachronism player and volunteer, Macintosh partisan, and all-around nice guy. You can e-mail me at Christopher.Heard@Pepperdine.edu.

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