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March 2023

March 01, 2023
There is some poignant humor in a bit of satire from McSweeney's depicting the prayer...

February 2023

February 23, 2023
I almost ended up doing a blog interview with the filmmaker behind Once The Ice...
February 21, 2023
This opportunity came to my attention and it seemed appropriate to spread the word: Nova...
February 20, 2023
As I listened to Brian McLaren's wonderful book Do I Stay Christian? a while back I...
February 15, 2023
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit Call for Proposals Environments and Landscapes For this session,...
February 13, 2023
A student in my class this semester, Sophie Schieve, had the following interaction with ChatGPT:...
February 11, 2023
The Eerdmans website now has my next book listed, which should be out sometime this...
February 09, 2023
One explanation someone offered for why ChatGPT imitated me so poorly (as shared in my...
February 06, 2023
Imagine a world in which there are no church buildings. There are no formally organized...
February 03, 2023
A press release about my latest book, now available for free: The Bible and Music. PALSave...

January 2023

January 31, 2023
A conversation I had on Facebook Messenger recently with fellow New Testament scholar Sara Parks...
January 30, 2023
Here's the flyer for a talk I'll be giving at Georgia College and State University...
January 25, 2023
I have quoted, commented on, reviewed, and in other ways engaged with Carl Sagan here...
January 23, 2023
I attended a lunchtime talk here at Georgia College by Dr. Cynthia Alby, who has...
January 18, 2023
A lot of people have written already about the recent case in which Hamline University...
January 16, 2023
I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...
January 13, 2023
A while back I shared a possible reconstructed Baptist source for the Christian infancy stories...
January 07, 2023
Coming to Georgia College and State University for the semester provided the opportunity to meet...
January 04, 2023
Following up from my previous post (I started working on this one before that one,...
January 01, 2023
We have been encouraged to think about how we teach in an era of AI-generated...

December 2022

December 30, 2022
Call for Abstracts [via Matt Brake]: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons Edited by Scott...
December 29, 2022
I've commented on my blog before on Kirk Cameron's anti-science position and things like that,...
December 25, 2022
I have long loved the Christmas decoration that depicts the four phases of life in...
December 18, 2022
It has been a month since my last blog post. I would have to check...

November 2022

November 17, 2022
Here's what I'm doing at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature...
November 14, 2022
At the weekly Friday coffee time at the Visiting Scholars Center at Oxford University's Weston...
November 09, 2022
While I was reading Andrew Perriman's book In the Form of a God about early...

October 2022

October 27, 2022
People like me who identify themselves as liberal Christians often get asked, "Can you explain...
October 21, 2022
Doctor Who Explores Theology 24 October 2022 at 7:30 pm St. John's College, Durham University...
October 17, 2022
This started out as a collection of links, but I also want to float an...
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