Caleb Morell is a historian and assistant pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC.
He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he majored in International History and received the Davids Medal for his thesis on early English Baptist arguments for religious toleration. He completed his Master of Divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Caleb is currently a doctoral student in historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and an Associate of Newton House, Oxford. His PhD research focuses on the role of lay elders in Baptist history.
His political, theological, and historical writing has appeared in 9Marks, American Reformer, Christ Over All, Christianity Today, ERLC, Fairer Disputations, First Things, The Gospel Coalition, the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Providence Magazine, SBC Life, WORLD Opinions, and other outlets.
He is the author of A Light on the Hill: The Surprising Story of How a Local Church in the Nation's Capital Influenced Evangelicalism (Crossway, 2025). He lives with his wife, Clare, and their three children on Capitol Hill.