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June 2026

June 07, 2026
Rome recommendations are everywhere. Maybe you've been thinking about going to Rome. Perhaps you're already...

May 2026

May 14, 2026
The Enoch Seminar puts on wonderful conferences and this one on "The New Testament...
May 12, 2026
I am long overdue to offer a review of Brandan Robertson's powerful book Queer and Christian:...
May 02, 2026
Introduction: Project Hail Mary and the Future of Schools and Churches A former student of...

April 2026

April 19, 2026
Does AI write better than students? I have been pondering that question from a number...
April 06, 2026
Unscriptural doctrines of scripture are a problem in a variety of ways. Some contradict key...
April 04, 2026
There are several new reviews of Beyond Deconstruction as well as several new podcasts. I...

March 2026

March 27, 2026
In her absolutely wonderful book Nerd Faith: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for the...

February 2026

February 27, 2026
Candida Moss has a new article out in National Geographic titled "Why John the Baptist Was...
February 25, 2026
AI can seem like magic. I have used the analogy of "showing how the magic...
February 09, 2026
The title of this post does indeed have the words in the right order -...
February 04, 2026
One of the key topics I address in my new book Beyond Deconstruction is how so-called...
February 01, 2026
I called this post "Paid AIgitators" because it seemed a good way to explore the...

January 2026

January 27, 2026
I had grandiose ideas about what I might do to offer some music in connection...
January 23, 2026
As someone who has been researching and writing about Jesus' temple action for many years,...
January 21, 2026
Whenever I have a new book, Jonathan Foye gets in touch and does an interview,...
January 19, 2026
Martin Luther King Day 2026 is different from others during my lifetime. We are at...
January 16, 2026
I am teaching a course about misinformation and the Bible this semester and Pilate’s famous...
January 13, 2026
I was going to include "My Year With ChatGPT" at the end of my previous...
January 11, 2026
I have been wondering for a while, but especially in the past couple of days,...
January 10, 2026
Why would I say that "Evangelicals View God as Like Donald Trump"? It struck me...
January 09, 2026
It strikes me that the best way to think about the process of faculty grappling...
January 06, 2026
When I title this post "Venezuela Greenland and the Apocalypse" that does not mean that...
January 05, 2026
Jorunn Buckley begins her book 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans with a bold claim...
January 03, 2026
In addition to wishing blog readers a happy new year, there's something else exciting about...

December 2025

December 31, 2025
It is always good to look back on the year that is ending, especially when...
December 29, 2025
Sound doctrine in the Bible came up in a conversation on Facebook recently. One of...
December 24, 2025
I watched Journey to Bethlehem a while back. I planned to do so when it...
December 15, 2025
It is impossible to overstate how important Sandra van Rompaey's book Mandaean Symbolic Art is....
December 13, 2025
Kirk Cameron took upon himself the role of Evangelical gatekeeper and spokesperson. Now that he...
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