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February 2019

February 04, 2019
I still remember vividly my introduction to the music of Thomas Tallis. It occurred...
February 03, 2019
The Zondervan Academic blog explains the significance of words of Paul that are often taken...
February 02, 2019
I tell students regularly in class that, as a professor of New Testament, I have...
February 01, 2019
The second episode of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery is bound to be...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
I'm very happy to share information that was provided to me about an upcoming exhibit...
January 30, 2019
This week's podcast features Dr. Helen Bond, who is a New Testament professor at the...
January 29, 2019
The Call for Papers for the 2019 AAR Annual Meeting is now available! I am...
January 28, 2019
The Armageddon Factor is the episode that brings the Key to Time sequence of episodes...
January 27, 2019
Charles Allen writes, Now of course all of that could simply be about me and...
January 26, 2019
I recently resumed my "reading" of Frank Herbert's Dune series through audiobooks, after a longer...
January 25, 2019
This is another blog post that existed as a draft for a long time. The...
January 24, 2019
I'm delighted to report that a publisher has accepted my proposal for a book with...
January 23, 2019
 This week's guest on the ReligionProf Podcast is Dr. Douglas Cowan. I've been a...
January 22, 2019
These devotional candles featuring the main characters from the X-Files grabbed my attention - not...
January 21, 2019
Today is Martin Luther King day, and the activity of King and other civil rights...
January 20, 2019
One of the things that struck me when reading John Scalzi's novel Redshirts was how much...
January 19, 2019
Jonathan Bernier explains how historians' judgment about Jesus' historicity works: All historical argumentation is probabilistic....
January 18, 2019
I have had a draft of a blog post for a while, which was initially...
January 17, 2019
Andy Hickman kindly reviewed my book Theology and Science Fiction on Goodreads. Here's how his review...
January 16, 2019
This week's podcast features Thomas Jay Oord. His latest book is called God Can't, and...
January 15, 2019
You know the experience. You are reading something that should be familiar, and yet something...
January 14, 2019
I recently had a review I wrote of Kevin van Bladel's book, From Sasanian Mandaeans...
January 13, 2019
From Eboo Patel’s recent article in Inside Higher Education: My larger point is this: in...
January 12, 2019
I've developed a rhythm to my sharing of items of interest on social media. That...
January 11, 2019
I wanted to preface my review of the movie Bohemiah Rhapsody (which I posted yesterday)...
January 10, 2019
I finally got to see the movie Bohemian Rhapsody this week, and I thoroughly enjoyed...
January 09, 2019
This week's episode continues my most recent conversation with computer scientist Ankur Gupta. Ankur is...
January 08, 2019
Rev. Dr. Charles Allen leads the wonderful progressive Christian campus ministry at Butler University known...
January 07, 2019
There have been a number of interesting blog posts and articles about pedagogy and biblical...
January 06, 2019
I received a delightful email not long ago that has made me want to turn...
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