About Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw is a PhD student in Historical Theology at Union College, Belfast, and a Visiting Tutor at the Irish Baptist College. His research focuses on the thought of the Independent Puritan theologian Jeremiah Burroughs (1599–1646). His primary academic interests lie in historical theology, particularly the Reformation and post-Reformation periods. He also serves as the Associate Pastor at Strandtown Baptist Church, Belfast.

Michael Shaw is a PhD student in Historical Theology at Union College, Belfast, a Visiting Tutor at the Irish Baptist College, and Associate Pastor at Strandtown Baptist. He writes at www.theologyforlife.co.uk
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NBN Episodes hosted by Michael:

Holly Crawford Pickett, "The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

August 28, 2026

The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England

Holly Crawford Pickett
Hosted by Michael Shaw

After mounting London’s outdoor pulpit known as St. Paul’s Cross on 8th December, 1588, Anthony Tyrrell found himself perched before a skeptical audie…

Marinus De Jong, "A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder's Ecclesiology" (Brill, 2025)

June 14, 2026

A Church for a Secular World

Marinus De Jong
Hosted by Michael Shaw

The relationship between the Church and the world has been a subject of debate since the Church's earliest days. In ⁠A Church for a Secular World: The…