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May 2020

May 28, 2020

The Pandemic and the Future of Higher Education

The pandemic is going to permanently impact higher education. Some institutions are already closed. Funding...

May 18, 2020

Was John the Baptist a Hermit?

I’ve been thinking a lot about John the Baptist lately (for reasons that are probably...

May 16, 2020

Inerrancy vs. Humility and Humanity

I had a draft post here for a while with something I hoped to return...

May 15, 2020

We All Believe

In an amazing blog post on the Yale University Press blog, Agustin Fuentes writes: We...

May 08, 2020

Enoch Seminar Online 2020: The Origin of Evil in Second Temple Judaism

I am delighted that the Enoch Seminar, a forward-thinking organization by its very nature, was...

May 03, 2020

Arrogant Thanksgiving?

Randal Rauser commented on Twitter about the following meme image, saying 'There's nothing "arrogant," "vain,"...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Stay-at-Home Orders in the Bible (and “What Use is God?”)

I thought I'd share a part of the recording from my Sunday school class meeting...

April 22, 2020

Renovate Your Faith

As talk of a stay at home order was just beginning, my home was in...

April 21, 2020

Ramadan Comes to American Universities

I was happy that last year, well before final exam week arrived, my university leadership...

April 20, 2020

Face to Face Fellowship in #Zoomcharist

My Sunday school class celebrated Zoomcharist (communion via Zoom), and not only did we have...

April 19, 2020

Doubt, Faith, and Counterfeits

Vance Morgan writes of the story of Thomas in the Gospel of John: There is...

April 17, 2020

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bread): Celebrating Zoomcharist

Someone in my Sunday school class asked whether we could celebrate communion next Sunday. I...

April 14, 2020

Songs of Your Truth

I was delighted when I learned a while back (in a conversation with Deb Saxon...

April 09, 2020

The Judas Passion and Graphic Novel

Teaching a course on the Bible and music leads me to encounter so much material...

April 07, 2020

Prison, Solitary Confinement, Hermitage, and Social Distancing

People in religious traditions with major holidays in April this year are experiencing disruption. To...

April 05, 2020

Elephantine, Leontopolis, and Gnosticism

There's so much that deserves to be said, and deserves to be better known, about...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

#CFP International Conference #DHJewish – Jewish Studies in the Digital Age

International Conference “#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age”, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital...

March 10, 2020

The Doctor’s Respect for Religion

Max Curtis has an article on the Tor website about faith and religious symbolism in...

March 04, 2020

Open Access Mandaean Book of John

Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (which President Trump would...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of John: Enoch Seminar Colloquiuum at #AARSBL19

Here I am returning to a session that I didn't manage to blog about at...

February 20, 2020

Come Compromise at Crooked Creek Baptist Church!

It is high time for me to invite readers of my blog to my church,...

February 09, 2020

New Open Access Journal: Journal of Religious Competition in Antiquity

Courtesy of AWOL (Ancient World Online): New Open Access Journal: Journal of Religious Competition in...

February 05, 2020

Conservative Christianity Isn’t Christianity

I decided to combine my blog post about the latest ReligionProf Podcast with Matthew Korpman and...

February 03, 2020

Rev. John Ortberg Sermon on Religion and Science

BioLogos has an incredible wealth of resources that it offers to churches on a daily...

January 2020

January 11, 2020

2020 Dirk Smilde Scholarships

2020 Dirk Smilde Scholarships The Qumran Institute of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies...

January 07, 2020

BWIYW?

I want to share some thoughts inspired by a recent Sunday school class of mine...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

Robotic Religion

I thought I'd share a recording of the lunchtime discussion I led on the...

December 24, 2019

The Bigness of God

I am sure that many people, seeing the title of this post, will think immediately...

December 07, 2019

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

I began writing this just after seeing the movie about Mr. Rogers starring Tom Hanks...

December 03, 2019

Research Fellowship Opportunity: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity

Research Fellowship Opportunity ACADEMIC YEAR: 2021-2022 THEME: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity The...

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