-  Faculty Experts   -  News by Topic   -  News by School Search News & Info WUSTL in the News   - Powered by Google WUSTL Home Public Affairs Home University News Medical News Sports News Radio Service Business, Law & Econ Culture & Living Science & Technology Contact Information TV/Radio Studio Visiting Our Campuses Campus Images Sports photography Commercial Filming    and Photography Commercial Use of    Names and Symbols Domain Name policy Record (newspaper) Campus Calendars WUSTL News Summary Publications Online Facts, Guides & Maps		Tip Sheet: Culture & Living Tip sheets highlight timely news and events at Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in arranging interviews, please see the contact information listed with each story. For comments on the Culture & Living news tips service, please contact the editor, Sue Killenberg McGinn at (314) 935-5254 or susan_killenberg_mcginn@aismail.wustl.edu. Tips Sheets: Business, Law & Econ | Culture & Living | Medical Science & Health | Science & Technology Biography of Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D. Media assistance: Neil Schoenherr - (314) 935-5235 Source: Frank K. Flinn's Web site - (314) 935-7752 Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D. [St. Louis, Mo., April 2002] - Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches, among other things, courses on the North American religious experience, Christianity in the modern world, and "cults" in America. He received his undergraduate degree from Quincy College; a bachelor of divinity, magna cum laude, from Harvard Divinity School; and a doctorate in special religious studies from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Flinn also serves as an expert in forensic religion, testifying on the legal definition of religion and religious practices here and abroad. Recently he has appeared on radio and television around the globe on issues relating to Waco, the militia in the United States and Heavensgate. He is author of "Millennial Hermeneutics in The Coming Kingdom: Essays in American Millennialism & Eschatology (1983)"; "Church, Sect, Denomination, Cult" in Liberty: A Magazine of Religious Liberty (July/August, 1994); "Question: Is Apocalyptic Religion Bad for America?" Insight (June 19, 1995); "Government Shouldn't Fulfill Militia's Apocalyptic Prophecies" Insight (May 29, 1995); "Toward a Self-inflicted Armageddon?" Houston Chronicle (Sunday, April 30, 1995); and "Conversion: Up From Evangelicalism, or the Pentecostal and Charismatic Experience" in Religious Conversion: Content, Context and Controversy (London: Cassells, 1999).
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