Dr. Bingham joined Phoenix Seminary in 2024 after having served in both ministerial and academic contexts in the United States and the United Kingdom. Most recently, Dr. Bingham taught and held administrative leadership positions at Oak Hill College in London. Alongside these academic pursuits, he has served as a pastor in the United States and Northern Ireland.

Dr. Bingham is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and his research and writing focus primarily on the history and theology of post-Reformation England. He is the author of A Heart Aflame for God (forthcoming, Crossway), Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Identity in the English Revolution (2019, OUP), and numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is married to Shelley and together they have four children: Amelia, John, James, and David.

– Queen’s University Belfast, PhD

– Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv

– University of California Los Angeles, BA

After a ministry of church planting in central Massachusetts, Dr. James Renihan and his family moved to Escondido, CA in 1998 to begin serving as Dean of the newly formed Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies. He led that work for 20 years, and when it became IRBS Theological Seminary in 2018 was appointed the first president. He has served as a pastor of churches in Massachusetts, New York and California. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (PhD), Seminary of the East (MDiv), Trinity Ministerial Academy, and Liberty Baptist College (BS). His academic work has focused on the Second London Baptist Confession and the broader Puritan theological context from which it arose.

Jared Mays is a member and the pastoral intern of discipleship at Great Victoria Street Baptist Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland in partnership with Reaching and Teaching International Ministries. He is a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD student in Church History at Queen’s University, Belfast where his research focuses on the development of baptistic groups in the late seventeenth century. Jared has taught at the Irish Baptist College and Queen’s University and is a Junior Fellow for the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. He is married to Zoe, and they have four children.

Although raised a reformed Baptist, Noah joined Lydia, his high school sweetheart, in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America during their years at Geneva College. They now have six kids: Katie, Michael, Julia, Andrew, Elaina, and Allen. Noah earned his M.Div. at RPTS in Pittsburgh, PA. After eight years of church planting in northwest Oklahoma, Noah took up the pastorate of First RPC of Cambridge, MA in 2017. Noah plans to begin his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast this autumn, studying the transatlantic literary debate between New England Congregationalism and Scottish Presbyterianism in the 1640s and 50s.