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July 11, 2022
In the Footsteps of John the Baptist Part 2: Yardenit, Tiberias, and Bet Alfa
I shared photos on Facebook during my brief visit to Tiberias on the shore of...
July 06, 2022
The Samaritans: A Profile
Reinhardt Pummer's book The Samaritans: A Profile offers an extremely helpful overview of the history...
June 2022
June 27, 2022
In the Footsteps of John the Baptist Part 1: From the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Galilee
As I prepared for my recent trip to the Holy Land focused on John the...
June 22, 2022
John the Baptist and the Mandaeans
For anyone interested in getting a glimpse of some of the exciting insights and groundbreaking...
June 13, 2022
What Is God? G’Kar’s Answer
I have been watching Babylon 5 and wanted to share this wonderful segment in episode...
June 06, 2022
A Place Called District 12: Appalachian Geography and Music in The Hunger Games – Interview with Tom Paradis
There is a new book out by my Butler University colleague Tom Paradis: A Place...
May 2022
May 30, 2022
The Ministry for the Future and the Children of the Comet
It was incredibly disconcerting to have the experience of finishing listening to the audiobook of...
May 26, 2022
Theology and Black Mirror
Nicely converging with the announcement that there will be another season of Black Mirror, a...
May 24, 2022
Extended Call for Chapter Proposals: Theology, Religion, and Margaret Atwood #CFP
The Popular Culture and Theology blog just announced an extension to this call for papers:...
May 23, 2022
I Am God’s Dream
I am grateful to Matthew Paul Turner for sending me a copy of his latest...
May 20, 2022
Entering Strange New Worlds of Star Trek
I have failed to blog about Picard but having watched the first few episodes of...
May 16, 2022
Prehistoric Planet
I had a chance to preview the new Apple TV series Prehistoric Planet and it...
May 10, 2022
The Parables of LaGuardia Airport, the Call Center, and the Lost Sock
Several experiences have led me to think of ways to update classic parables from the...
May 02, 2022
Wholehearted Faith
I have loved every single one of Rachel Held Evans' books. I have never been...
April 2022
April 30, 2022
#CFP Call for Contributions to a Book: What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T Davies
I was made aware of this call for chapter proposals (via H-Net and Call for...
April 27, 2022
Justification and Judgment in Paul
Richard Beck has begun a new series on Paul's theology, after reading (among other things)...
April 25, 2022
Sabbatical Update
Now that some details and arrangements have been finalized I can finally share details about...
April 09, 2022
AAR Conference Paper for 2022: “Late Antique Texts and Earlier History: The Case of John the Baptist and Mandaean Sources”
I mentioned in a previous blog post that I will present a conference paper in...
April 08, 2022
Sci-Fi and AI
While my focus during 2022-2023 will be on John the Baptist, I will continue to...
April 04, 2022
A Hypothetical Infancy Narrative of John the Baptist
In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who...
March 2022
March 28, 2022
Detecting Planet Q
If you are at all interested in astronomy you have undoubtedly come across reference to...
March 22, 2022
Q as a Source of Knowledge about John the Baptist
I've been notified of the acceptance of a conference paper I proposed, and so I'll...
March 14, 2022
Laurențiu Ganea’s Musical Explorations of Biblical Texts
Laurențiu Ganea is a Romanian composer whose work was pointed out to me by a...
March 07, 2022
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting #CFP Deadline Extended to March 8th!
The deadline for AAR Annual Meeting paper proposals is extended to March 8 From the...
March 03, 2022
Ukrainian Churches in the Time of War: Round table discussion March 4, 2022
Ukrainian Churches in the Time of War Round table discussion Friday, March 4 18:00-19:30 Kyiv time...
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February 28, 2022
Jesus and Nonviolence
I asked my Sunday school class to take a detour into a topic that I...
February 21, 2022
The Ongoing Impact of Hal Lindsey’s End Times Books
I had an interesting conversation with writer Andrew Logan who is working on a piece...
February 15, 2022
2022 International Conference on Religion & Film #CFP ‘Visions of a Better World’
The 2022 International Conference on Religion & Film is themed ‘Visions of a Better World’...
February 14, 2022
Jesus as Another Noah
I listened to 1 Enoch as an audiobook (R. H. Charles' classic translation) and was...
February 07, 2022
Failing to Believe Jesus’ Words (about John the Baptist)
It took me until just recently to realize something. It is a result of my...
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