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April 2019

April 05, 2019
Details have been announced about the 2019 ΘeoCon, which this year will take place at...
April 04, 2019
I was very happy to receive a message from the pastor of my church, Rev....
April 03, 2019
My guest on the podcast this week is my Butler University colleague Dr. Deborah Saxon....
April 02, 2019
Fantastic Religions and Where to Find Them Deities, Myths and Rites in Science Fiction and...
April 01, 2019
Given that I am working on a book about things Jesus learned from women, I...

March 2019

March 31, 2019
As I’ve thought about what to cover in a book on theology and progressive rock...
March 30, 2019
Jim Burklo offers this helpful illustration between Christianity and cooking, between the Bible and a...
March 29, 2019
Richard Beck writes, The moral resources needed to navigate the conflict between non-judgmental inclusion and...
March 28, 2019
I am delighted that a student whose honors thesis I am currently supervising will be...
March 27, 2019
There has already been a lot of attention to A. David Lewis's revival of the Muslim...
March 26, 2019
Given how much this subject has been in the news lately, and on blogs and...
March 25, 2019
The Jesus Creed blog shared a number of principles for biblical interpretation from John Walton,...
March 24, 2019
This sentence from a recent conversation Adam Kotsko and Sarah Jaffe had sums up my...
March 23, 2019
Mark Given writes in Review of Biblical Literature, reviewing Christoph Heilig's book Hidden Criticism? The...
March 22, 2019
I saw this call for a "Twitter Conference" on Digital Orientalisms, and not only did...
March 21, 2019
I have some wonderful news to share: I have been commissioned to write the volume...
March 20, 2019
I hope you enjoy this conversation with Melinda Bouma and Bob Gaudet who work for...
March 19, 2019
With the Jewish holiday of Purim almost here, Dr. Henry Abramson wrote a very interesting...
March 18, 2019
Having written about science fiction as prophecy here not long ago, I was struck by...
March 17, 2019
Let me supplement my last post about the historical Jesus with another that connects with...
March 16, 2019
Another call for papers about science fiction that deserves to be circulated widely: Contemporary American...
March 15, 2019
Bart Ehrman wrote something recently that conveys something crucial, and does so clearly and succinctly:...
March 14, 2019
I was really struck by a number of engaging aspects of a post on the...
March 13, 2019
In this week’s episode of the ReligionProf Podcast, I share a long-overdue conversation with Andrew...
March 12, 2019
What an odd path my academic life has followed. They say truth is stranger than...
March 11, 2019
News not from Butler University per se, but from Christian Theological Seminary, which is located...
March 10, 2019
I tried something new in my First Year Seminar class this semester, which focuses on...
March 09, 2019
Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you...
March 08, 2019
International Women's Day seems like a good day to return to blogging about the book...
March 07, 2019
My visit to McCormick Theological Seminary was so engaging that even now I'm not done...
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