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February 2023

February 15, 2023

Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity #CFP AAR2023

Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit Call for Proposals Environments and Landscapes For this session,...

February 13, 2023

ChatGPT on Mary Magdalene

A student in my class this semester, Sophie Schieve, had the following interaction with ChatGPT:...

February 11, 2023

New Book: The A to Z of the New Testament

The Eerdmans website now has my next book listed, which should be out sometime this...

February 09, 2023

Chat-GPT3 Upgraded: Now With Common Sense?

One explanation someone offered for why ChatGPT imitated me so poorly (as shared in my...

February 06, 2023

Imagine No Churches?

Imagine a world in which there are no church buildings. There are no formally organized...

February 03, 2023

Bible and Music Open Textbook

A press release about my latest book, now available for free: The Bible and Music. PALSave...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

ChatGPT-3 Imitates James McGrath

A conversation I had on Facebook Messenger recently with fellow New Testament scholar Sara Parks...

January 30, 2023

Google and ChatGPT vs. the Star Trek Computers

Here's the flyer for a talk I'll be giving at Georgia College and State University...

January 25, 2023

Extraordinary Claims and Extraordinary Evidence

I have quoted, commented on, reviewed, and in other ways engaged with Carl Sagan here...

January 23, 2023

Why I Encouraged My Students to Use ChatGPT

I attended a lunchtime talk here at Georgia College by Dr. Cynthia Alby, who has...

January 18, 2023

The Freedom to Be Offended and to Offend: At the Intersection of Academic Freedom, Art History, Respect, and Religion

A lot of people have written already about the recent case in which Hamline University...

January 16, 2023

God’s Ideal for Human Flourishing

I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...

January 13, 2023

The Infancy of John the Baptist: Another Reconstruction

A while back I shared a possible reconstructed Baptist source for the Christian infancy stories...

January 07, 2023

ChatGPT vs. Genesis

Coming to Georgia College and State University for the semester provided the opportunity to meet...

January 04, 2023

Can ChatGPT Write My John the Baptist Book?

Following up from my previous post (I started working on this one before that one,...

January 01, 2023

Starting a Class on Women in Early Christianity in the Era of ChatGPT

We have been encouraged to think about how we teach in an era of AI-generated...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

Theology/Religion & D&D #CFP

Call for Abstracts [via Matt Brake]: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons Edited by Scott...

December 29, 2022

Kirk Cameron at the Indianapolis Public Library

I've commented on my blog before on Kirk Cameron's anti-science position and things like that,...

December 25, 2022

Have a Mature Christmas (If You’re Ready To)

I have long loved the Christmas decoration that depicts the four phases of life in...

December 18, 2022

Being a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University

It has been a month since my last blog post. I would have to check...

November 2022

November 17, 2022

James McGrath at AAR/SBL in Denver

Here's what I'm doing at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature...

November 14, 2022

Mandaean Illustrated Scroll Talk and Exhibit

At the weekly Friday coffee time at the Visiting Scholars Center at Oxford University's Weston...

November 09, 2022

New Books on Early Christian Hymns

While I was reading Andrew Perriman's book In the Form of a God about early...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Liberal Christianity 101 – What You Should Know

People like me who identify themselves as liberal Christians often get asked, "Can you explain...

October 21, 2022

Doctor Who Explores Theology

Doctor Who Explores Theology 24 October 2022 at 7:30 pm St. John's College, Durham University...

October 17, 2022

John the Baptist: Fit to Be Tied?

This started out as a collection of links, but I also want to float an...

October 13, 2022

Job Opportunities: Remote Research Positions, Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library

The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library (SMDL) at the UCLA Library is currently hiring for several...

October 12, 2022

Isaac Augustine Morales, The Bible and Baptism

When I saw that Isaac Morales had just published a book with the title The Bible...

October 07, 2022

John and Jesus under Roman Occupation?

I am now settled in in Oxford continuing my research on John the Baptist. There...

October 01, 2022

Mary Magdalene (and other biblical towers)

I was disappointed by the commentary from Ian Paul and Ben Witherington on the subject...

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