“Bloggership” is a term for scholarly blogging which I learned at the SBL session on blogging. I will share my own paper from that session here soon (with slides and links!), but in the mean time I wanted to share links to the posts of other bloggers sharing their papers from the session, accounts of [...]

Several posts over the last few days have touched on the topics of courage and fear, faith and atheism. It seemed worth gathering them together. The most amusing of them is Hacking Christianity’s “Fear Will Keep The Local Churches In Line” alluding to the Star Wars scene in the picture in this post. Some church [...]

Nikki Stafford has posted her latest installment in her blog series “Lostaholics Anonymous.” The subject is the finale and the way it polarized fans. Nikki discusses the fact that some were put off by the ending’s overt Christian overtones. In fact, some were put off by its non-Christian overtones, the pluralistic symbolism. But I think [...]

Joel Watts snapped a photo of me presenting at the section on blogging at the Society of Biblical Literature meeting: As you can see from the image projected on the screen, my talk was about what happens when matter and antimatter collide. Jim Linville‘s picture, while somewhat more impressionistic, is not for that reason less [...]

By complete coincidence I am sitting next to Ken Schenck, a good friend and fellow New Testament scholar and blogger, on a flight back from Atlanta, where this year’s Society of Biblical Literature conference was held. Neither of the main conference hotels provided free wi-fi, and so I didn’t manage to blog the conference as [...]