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January 2022

January 10, 2022

Baptism and Healing in John 5

Given how much of the Gospel of John reflects polemical interaction with followers of John...

January 07, 2022

Discussing The Matrix: Resurrections

Here is the YouTube video of my conversation with Tripp Fuller and Donna Bowman, two...

January 03, 2022

Revamping the Bible

I mentioned on Facebook that I have been thinking about other possible ways of structuring...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

2021 turned out to be the year when I couldn't manage to keep up my...

December 29, 2021

AI and Ethics

I had hoped to be able to share the talk I gave to an audience...

December 28, 2021

Interview with Mike Austin, author of God and Guns in America

I had the opportunity to interview Mike Austin about his book God and Guns in America....

December 27, 2021

New Resource, New Opportunities: Literature and Religion

There is a new website project spearheaded by Prof. Sharon Kim with the title Literature...

December 25, 2021

Romanian Christmas Carols

Merry Christmas! Here are some of my family's favorite Romanian Christmas carols, with English translations...

December 24, 2021

The Matrix Resurrections

The Matrix Resurrections is so meta that most of it may be lost on those...

December 22, 2021

A Baptist Source in Luke?

Luke’s Gospel is distinctive in many ways, but particularly noteworthy is its account of the...

December 21, 2021

Interview with Niq Ruud author of Only Love

I had the opportunity to talk just these past few days with Niq Ruud about...

December 20, 2021

New Review of What Jesus Learned from Women

Clif Hostetler wrote the following on Amazon as a review of my book What Jesus...

December 16, 2021

Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament

I provided an endorsement for Jonathan Bernier's new book Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament....

December 13, 2021

Mythicism and Typology

I shared some thoughts in comments on this blog related to mythicism and historical method....

December 08, 2021

Magnificat (On My Own)

I make a point of committing to doing the final project along with students when...

December 07, 2021

The Elohist Akedah

Composer Delvyn Case has set the Elohist's version of the story of Abraham's sacrifice of...

December 06, 2021

Doctor Who: Flux

I debated what would be best each time I watched part of the season-long Doctor...

December 02, 2021

The Blind God and the Blind Watchmaker in Conversation

When Shirley Paulson reached out to me about returning for another appearance on her podcast,...

December 01, 2021

Online Event: Doctor Who in ‘Flux’?: The Thirteenth Doctor from New Dawn to Final Days

On Wednesday 8 December at 18:30, Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield), Lorna Jowett (University of...

November 2021

November 25, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving!

I thought I would repost something I wrote quite a number of years ago now....

November 18, 2021

Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions #CFP

ICOHTEC 2022 Call for Papers and Sessions Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions The 2022 International...

November 16, 2021

Bloomsbury Studies in Popular Fiction and Religious Dynamics #CFP – Call for Proposals for New Book Series

One of the series editors, Alana Vincent, shared the following and I'm happy to pass...

November 15, 2021

Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society #CFP

This call for papers grabbed my attention: The Call for Panels has been extended till...

November 12, 2021

Special Panel: Mysteries of Dune: Esotericism, Occultism, and the Magic of Melange #CFP

Special Panel: Mysteries of Dune: Esotericism, Occultism, and the Magic of Melange updated: Wednesday, November...

November 11, 2021

The Matrix Revisited #CFP

Call for Papers: The Matrix Revisited The cultural and social impact of The Matrix franchise is self-evident. ...

November 05, 2021

Triangulating on John the Baptist from Christianity and Essenism?

Recently I have been listening to the audiobook of John Bergsma's book Jesus and the...

November 04, 2021

Do People Still Google in the 23rd Century? #StarbaseIndy

It’s official: I will be presenting at Starbase Indy this year. Here is the brief...

November 03, 2021

#CFP Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Books and Essays

A call for papers via RelCFP: Hello, everyone. I’m editing a series with Rowman &...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Geeking Out With Maurice Broaddus and Ted Chiang, Christianity and Science Fiction Conference Videos, and More

Very soon I'll have an update to share about some of my own science fiction...

October 27, 2021

Recent Reviews of What Jesus Learned from Women

Here are a couple more reviews of What Jesus Learned from Women that have been...

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