Cory Driver

My work and my passion are helping leaders live well at the intersection of Scripture, gender, sex, nationality, migration, economic position and ethnicity. I’m a human-focused researcher at heart, focusing on how human stories and experiences in Scripture help us learn about ourselves, especially what we love, loathe, lionize, and lament.

My ethnographic work - treasuring up stories of love and loss from Moroccan women and men expressing longing across ethno-religious boundaries - indelibly shapes my ears and eyes to read and hear stories across the spectrum of human experience in our Scriptures.

I seek to provide nuance and context for modern interpreters of Scripture, as well as gratefully invite and receive challenge from marginalized voices from other identities, times and places.

I try to keep a professional presence in researching and writing; mentoring and forming professional Christian leaders; proclaiming Good News; and applying Scripture to the hurt places in the world.

My career, colleagues, research and life have two poles: The American Midwest and North Africa. I love the continued conversation and translation of texts and selves back and forth.