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June 07, 2026

A Religion Scholar’s Rome Recommendations

Rome recommendations are everywhere. Maybe you've been thinking about going to Rome. Perhaps you're already...

December 2025

December 15, 2025

Review, Mandaean Symbolic Art

It is impossible to overstate how important Sandra van Rompaey's book Mandaean Symbolic Art is....

December 08, 2025

Review of Sandra van Rompaey, Mandaean Symbolic Art

Not all doctoral theses get published. Those that deserve to are often found in monograph...

January 2023

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...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

Q as a Source of Knowledge about John the Baptist

I've been notified of the acceptance of a conference paper I proposed, and so I'll...

June 2021

June 22, 2021

Mandaeans in the News

As I shared on Facebook yesterday, an article I wrote for The Conversation about the...

March 2021

March 22, 2021

The Story of the Cover Art for What Jesus Learned from Women

I hope that Macey Dickerson’s fantastic artwork for my book What Jesus Learned from Women will get...

January 2021

January 18, 2021

What Jesus Learned from Women Cover Art Revealed

I am so thrilled to be able to share the amazing artwork that Macey Dickerson...

July 2020

July 27, 2020

Jesus according to AI

Bas Uterwijk, Dutch artist, did something remarkable. He took a variety of artistic renditions of...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Exhibit

I had the opportunity to make a guest appearance at one session of this year-long...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

The Vatican Museum

Another location that I visited while in Rome last summer was the Vatican, and given...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Random Churches of Rome 2: Church of the Gesù

One church that I happened to walk past in Rome and so entered was the Church...

August 03, 2016

SNTS: Seminar, Main Paper, Disputed Questions

The rest of the day featured three major components. The topical seminars had their first...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Hostile to Art?

I thought there were some interesting thoughts in a recent article interviewing Billy Smiley, formerly...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Depicting Jesus and Buddha

Today's Bizarro cartoon takes a look at how we depict important figures. What do you...

February 10, 2016

X-Files 10.4: Home Again

The episode focuses in an effort to relocate the homeless in downtown Philadelphia to an...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Fundamentalist Paint-by-Numbers

The quote comes from a post on Brian Zahnd's blog with the title "The X-Files...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Find the Panda: Star Wars Edition

Courtesy of Bored Panda.  

October 2015

October 09, 2015

More Star Wars Icons

Via Mike Bird, I became aware of Alex Ramos' Star Wars icons. Click through to...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

#YCAS2015 Third Panel

The session after lunch began with Brandon Hawk talking about the use of apocryphal narratives...

September 07, 2015

The Judgment of the Gods (The Graven Images Bible)

The Bible talks a lot about "graven images." Where does that leave an engraver? Apparently...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

King Solomon and Peer Pressure

I had a piece on the website "The Toast" drawn to my attention. It pokes fun...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

The Bible as Fantasy

I shared some science fictional explorations of Biblical texts by Ben Riddlebarger previously. He has...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Wahabi Time-Traveler

This cartoon from Evolving Perspectives finds a very clever way of using science fiction to...

January 23, 2015

Pop Culture Characters in the Bible

Hemant Mehta shared some examples of the art of Ben Riddlebarger, introducing characters from pop...

January 14, 2015

Yoda Buddha

CNET shared a link to and examples of Chris Milnes' productions, for sale on Etsy,...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Leave My Robe Alone

A recent article on Simcha Jacobovici's The Lost Gospel included Titian's painting "Noli me Tangere," which is...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

Respecting Beliefs

I came across this image on Pinterest, on the same day that the Pope excommunicated...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Saint Anakin

Via Funnyjunk  

April 07, 2014

Darth Pooh

Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, reading Darth Vader's lines from Star Wars....

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