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Imagine No Churches?
Imagine a world in which there are no church buildings. There are no formally organized...
February 03, 2023
Bible and Music Open Textbook
A press release about my latest book, now available for free: The Bible and Music. PALSave...
January 2023
January 31, 2023
ChatGPT-3 Imitates James McGrath
A conversation I had on Facebook Messenger recently with fellow New Testament scholar Sara Parks...
January 30, 2023
Google and ChatGPT vs. the Star Trek Computers
Here's the flyer for a talk I'll be giving at Georgia College and State University...
January 25, 2023
Extraordinary Claims and Extraordinary Evidence
I have quoted, commented on, reviewed, and in other ways engaged with Carl Sagan here...
January 23, 2023
Why I Encouraged My Students to Use ChatGPT
I attended a lunchtime talk here at Georgia College by Dr. Cynthia Alby, who has...
January 18, 2023
The Freedom to Be Offended and to Offend: At the Intersection of Academic Freedom, Art History, Respect, and Religion
A lot of people have written already about the recent case in which Hamline University...
January 16, 2023
God’s Ideal for Human Flourishing
I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...
January 13, 2023
The Infancy of John the Baptist: Another Reconstruction
A while back I shared a possible reconstructed Baptist source for the Christian infancy stories...
January 07, 2023
ChatGPT vs. Genesis
Coming to Georgia College and State University for the semester provided the opportunity to meet...
January 04, 2023
Can ChatGPT Write My John the Baptist Book?
Following up from my previous post (I started working on this one before that one,...
January 01, 2023
Starting a Class on Women in Early Christianity in the Era of ChatGPT
We have been encouraged to think about how we teach in an era of AI-generated...
December 2022
December 30, 2022
Theology/Religion & D&D #CFP
Call for Abstracts [via Matt Brake]: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons Edited by Scott...
December 29, 2022
Kirk Cameron at the Indianapolis Public Library
I've commented on my blog before on Kirk Cameron's anti-science position and things like that,...
December 25, 2022
Have a Mature Christmas (If You’re Ready To)
I have long loved the Christmas decoration that depicts the four phases of life in...
December 18, 2022
Being a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University
It has been a month since my last blog post. I would have to check...
November 2022
November 17, 2022
James McGrath at AAR/SBL in Denver
Here's what I'm doing at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature...
November 14, 2022
Mandaean Illustrated Scroll Talk and Exhibit
At the weekly Friday coffee time at the Visiting Scholars Center at Oxford University's Weston...
November 09, 2022
New Books on Early Christian Hymns
While I was reading Andrew Perriman's book In the Form of a God about early...
October 2022
October 27, 2022
Liberal Christianity 101 – What You Should Know
People like me who identify themselves as liberal Christians often get asked, "Can you explain...
October 21, 2022
Doctor Who Explores Theology
Doctor Who Explores Theology 24 October 2022 at 7:30 pm St. John's College, Durham University...
October 17, 2022
John the Baptist: Fit to Be Tied?
This started out as a collection of links, but I also want to float an...
October 13, 2022
Job Opportunities: Remote Research Positions, Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library
The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library (SMDL) at the UCLA Library is currently hiring for several...
October 12, 2022
Isaac Augustine Morales, The Bible and Baptism
When I saw that Isaac Morales had just published a book with the title The Bible...
October 07, 2022
John and Jesus under Roman Occupation?
I am now settled in in Oxford continuing my research on John the Baptist. There...
October 01, 2022
Mary Magdalene (and other biblical towers)
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September 28, 2022
The Synoptic Problem: Beyond the Q-Farrer Impasse?
I have been reading Francis Watson's recent book What Is a Gospel? (not least because I...
September 26, 2022
The Global Faith And Media Study: A Progressive Christian Perspective
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September 21, 2022
Doug Cowan’s Latest Book, The Forbidden Body
I had the opportunity to read Doug Cowan's latest book The Forbidden Body before it was...
September 19, 2022
The Bible and Music at the Royal Funeral
I watched the Queen's funeral live this morning. In addition to having lived in the...
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