2016-12-08T14:47:51-05:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2016 at 2:47 pm   By

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra has two performance of Handel’s Messiah this coming Sunday and Monday. The first is a performance of the entire oratorio; the second is a sing-along. You can find more information about the performances on the ICO website. My colleague Paul Valliere and I will be having a pre-concert chat on Sunday (starting at 2pm, an hour before the concert start time), and I’ll be having much the same chat with Maestro Kraemer on Monday evening (starting at 6:30, again... Read more

2016-12-07T23:02:17-05:00

Last updated on: December 7, 2016 at 11:02 pm   By

Charles Häberl has started blogging again recently, about the Mandaean Book of John and related texts, in a series of truly fascinating blog posts. I’d like to highlight a few of them here. The one that got me most excited is the one which makes sense of lines in the Mandaean Book of John which Mark Lidzbarski took to be references to “Christ-Paul.” A second post explores the concept of Mšunia Kušṭa, the Mandaean paradise whose name may mean “Truth’s Barrier” or,... Read more

2016-12-07T07:36:55-05:00

Last updated on: December 7, 2016 at 7:36 am   By

Even now, I have not managed to share all the interesting photos from my visit to Italy this summer. One place that I serendipitously happened across and entered was the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture. Once you see what is inside, it is hard to believe that it is not a major attraction, with people lined up around the block outside trying to get in. Instead, it was nearly empty with no crowds and only a small number of... Read more

2016-12-06T12:48:23-05:00

Last updated on: December 6, 2016 at 12:48 pm   By

If you or someone you know is qualified and available to teach this course, please contact [email protected] Read more

2016-12-06T11:15:47-05:00

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2016-12-02T22:24:38-05:00

Last updated on: December 2, 2016 at 10:24 pm   By

Helen Marple-Horvat has arranged the Throne Room Suite from Star Wars for string quartet. I hope you enjoy it! Read more

2016-12-05T11:17:01-05:00

Last updated on: December 5, 2016 at 11:17 am   By

There is a review of Theology and Science Fiction on the blog Pop Mythology. In it, Matt Hlinak argues the case that I ought to have spent more time interacting in detail with specific stories, especially as an alternative to including three very short stories of my own. It is a fair point, and I acknowledged the dilemma of whether to discuss narrative details in a way that makes the book more interesting to those who have read those stories, and less interesting or intelligible for... Read more

2016-12-04T19:55:09-05:00

Last updated on: December 4, 2016 at 7:55 pm   By

As I prepare to teach my course on the Bible and music next semester, I’ve been thinking more about the music behind and in the Bible, as well as music that takes up the already-existing Bible and works with it. As I think about the depictions of spontaneous singing by individuals (or what is often so construed by interpreters), I began to wonder what this actually envisages. Was there a custom of spontaneously composing song on the spot, in ancient Jewish or... Read more

2016-12-02T22:23:55-05:00

Last updated on: December 2, 2016 at 10:23 pm   By

I sometimes wonder if I am unusual in not always remembering things that I have done and experienced at times in the past, about which others appear to have a clear recollection. I suspect that this is just the way that memory works, and that the other individual had recalled the event in the intervening period whereas I had not. I am also often sketchy on precisely when things happened, and the order in which they occurred. And so, assuming... Read more

2016-12-03T12:48:22-05:00

Last updated on: December 3, 2016 at 12:48 pm   By

Here is the video recording of the conversation I had with Anthony Buzzard yesterday about Christology, monotheism, and related subjects. I talk about how I came to a personal faith and ended up studying the things that I did, and explaining my views on the Christologies in the letters of Paul and the Gospel of John. I hope you enjoy the video, and that you’ll listen in next Friday as we try to resume it where we left off, hopefully... Read more

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