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November 2016

November 11, 2016

Case Closed on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife – but there’s more to be said at #aarsbl16

A fair amount of discussion has been taking place online about the authenticity of some new...

November 10, 2016

Why Hillary Clinton Lost

My friend Tony Paganelli wrote the following on Facebook, and I thought that it needs...

November 10, 2016

Which Sci-Fi Dystopia Are You Living In?

To help with processing the election results, we connected them to a discussion (in my...

November 09, 2016

The Election Wasn’t Rigged. Now What?

I had hoped to be writing a very different blog post this morning. But the...

November 09, 2016

Light Comes, Even in Darkness

I had the privilege of speaking last week to participants in the workshop on Religion,...

November 08, 2016

Is Our Democracy Broken? #PatheosVotes2016

In my Sunday school class this past weekend, we talked about the election, how hard...

November 07, 2016

Make a Difference

Via the Huffington Post.

November 07, 2016

Fact Checking Politics and History

I constantly tell my students that the skills they learn in my classes are transferable,...

November 06, 2016

Excommunicate! Excommunicate!

It was IO9 which drew my attention to the fact that an artist had created...

November 05, 2016

Marcel Chyrzyński – Farewell for cello and piano

I love the way YouTube provides the serendipitous discovery of music that is new to me,...

November 04, 2016

Blogger Gathering at #AARSBL16 on Saturday, November 19th at 7pm at Yard House

The blogger dinner this year at AAR/SBL will be at 7pm on November 19th at...

November 04, 2016

Mason Bates’ Violin Concerto

November 03, 2016

The Gray Candidate

I suppose I could have spiced up the title of this post even more and...

November 03, 2016

Call for Papers: Mapping Transformations Towards a Christian Late Antiquity

Via Gerhard van den Heever: New Testament Society of South Africa: Early Christian Studies Subgroup...

November 03, 2016

Our Divine Double

Harvard Divinity School recorded this discussion of Charles Stang's book The Divine Double. I have not...

November 02, 2016

TheoFantastique Interview about Theology and Science Fiction

I am grateful to John Morehead for having interviewed me about my latest book, Theology...

November 02, 2016

The Josephus Problem

The above video was drawn to my attention by a friend. It is nice to...

November 01, 2016

October 2016 Biblical Studies Carnival

Bob MacDonald has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, filled with poetry and music more...

November 01, 2016

Course Content Concept Album(s)

To give credit where credit is due, I had this realization while listening to the...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Psalms by Tamás Beischer-Matyó

I was delighted to discover a number of settings of Psalms, as well as other...

October 30, 2016

R. Nathaniel Dett, The Ordering of Moses

October 29, 2016

Bultmann vs. Miller

I was surprised to read a post by Richard Miller on the blog Debunking Christianity,...

October 28, 2016

Imaginal Worlds Conference

Dear graduate students,On April 7th, 2017, Columbia University's Department of Religion will be hosting a...

October 27, 2016

Beyond Two-Party America

I felt both proud and ashamed as I listened to Butler students share their feelings...

October 26, 2016

Call for Papers: The Place of Religion in Film

March 30th-April 1st, the University of Syracuse will host a conference on "The Place of...

October 25, 2016

The New Way to Review Manuscripts

This PHDComic is funny, but there is a sense in which it is not as...

October 25, 2016

JRPC Star Wars Special Issue #CFP

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture issued this call for papers: Star Wars With...

October 24, 2016

#CFP Fantastic Arts, Fantastic Epics

Only a few days left, if you're interested in submitting a proposal for this... CfP:...

October 24, 2016

The #AARSBL16 app is here!

For those of you who had been waiting for this moment, the app for your...

October 24, 2016

Timeless

I still need to finish blogging about the last few episodes of classic Doctor Who....

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