Tim Allen is Professor of Humanities at Strayer University where he teaches Humanities, American History and World Religions. He is also pastor of Damascus Church in Chapel Hill, NC. He is an ordained minister and currently holds standing in the United Church of Christ. He has served in Baptist and United Church of Christ congregations in the capacity of minister of music/youth and pastor and has twenty-five years of ministerial experience. He received his BA in Religious Studies from the University of South Carolina; the M.Div. with Languages from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; the MA in Religious Studies (ancient Mediterranean Religions) from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and the PhD in Theological Studies (focus on early American Religion) from the Graduate Theological Foundation where he was honored as a Macquarrie Fellow. Dr. Allen has taught religion at the community college and university level since 1993 and taught World Religions online for Axia College of the University of Phoenix for several years. In 2004, Dr. Allen received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Randolph Community College and he was also awarded the Bronze Award for Teaching Excellence from Strayer University. In 2007 he was invited to attend the Oxford Round Table conference on “The Separation of Church and State.” An avid writer, his publications cover a broad gamut of studies from devotion, Sunday School curricula, pastoral theology, and Bible study to American religious history.Books
- North Carolina Quakers: Spring Friends Meeting
- Snow Camp, North Carolina
- Slave Escapes and the Underground Railroad in North Carolina (with Steve Miller)
- The Language of the Heart: A Theology of God-talk
- Seasons In The Year: Poems, Prayers, Praise, and Prose
- When the Season is Dry: A Promise and A Wilderness
- Mothers Around the Manger
- Help My Unbelief! Doubt, Faith, and the Gospel of Mark
Areas of Service
- Online Courses
Online Course Offering
- BIS 502 Biblical Myth and Pastoral Theology
- BIS 501 History of the Bible
- BIS 506 Help My Unbelief! Doubt, Faith, and the Gospel of Mark
- TCH 517 Myth, Theology, and Pastoral Ministry
- Steps of Faith – A Bible Curriculum for Faith Development
- KIC 502 Creation in the Old Testament
- KIC 503 Moving Beyond the Creation Debate
- BIS 509 Art as Bible Commentary: The Old Testament
- BIS 512 The Sabbath