Yesterday’s Speed Bump gets at the fallibility of religious leaders, even famous ones. It reminds me of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which depicts Jesus as a child, filled with incredible power, but also human and thus immature and prone to use his powers capriciously. Whatever one thinks of its contents, it reflects an awareness that one cannot think of Jesus as static and always perfectly mature and wise, and either claim that he was fully human, or for that... Read more
Tim Bulkeley has posted the first two of his 5 minute Bible videos, focusing on genre in the Bible. The first is above, and here is the second, focused on prose and poetry. Read more
I will be giving a brown bag lunchtime talk on campus next week on the topic of Doctor Who and religion. Click through to see the poster advertising the event! Read more
Happy new year to those who celebrate it according to the Jewish calendar! Even the Iranian president has voiced his Rosh ha-Shanah sentiments! Read more
Thanks to John Shore for drawing my attention to the NALT Christians Project website. NALT stands for “Not All Like That,” and it is a call for Christians who tell LGBT people “we are not all like that” to say that loudly and not just privately. Here is an introductory video by Dan Savage about the project. Savage should be familiar to you from his work on the “It Gets Better” project. And it was cool to get to see... Read more
The discussion of the way some envisage God as running a protection racket led commenter arcseconds to quip “Nice immortal soul you’ve got there. Pity if something were to happen to it.” I thought that deserved to be turned into a meme. Here are a few attempts. Feel free to do better, and if you make your own, please share it with me! Read more
Mike Kok has been blogging through the question of the genre of the Gospels and the history of scholarship on the subject, and of late he has reached Richard Burridge’s work on whether the Gospels are Bioi, i.e. ancient biographies of the sort written in that historical and cultural context. His latest post features a chart comparing the features in a number of works (the right column of which unfortunately doesn’t show up properly in Chrome). Andrew Lincoln’s forthcoming book... Read more
My review of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy has appeared in The Marginalia Review of Books. Click through to read it! Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy is available on Amazon.com Read more
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