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August 2024

August 19, 2024

Studying Religion Today

As of June 1st I am chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies...

August 22, 2023

Asking ChatGPT to Stop Doing Theology

As a follow-up to my previous exchange with it, I asked ChatGPT what it would...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

Theology/Religion & D&D #CFP

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

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Doctor Who Explores Theology

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

June 2021

June 13, 2021

#CFP Theology and Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Worlds

This is an exciting call for chapter proposals for an edited volume on theology and...

May 2021

May 14, 2021

Call for Papers: Theology and the Riordanverse #CFP

Call for Papers: Theology and the Riordanverse Editors: Nathan E. Fleeson and Carolyn M. Jones...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

What God Learned from Women?

Let me start by highlighting that my WFYI radio appearance yesterday is now available on...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

Call for Papers: Theology and Dystopia

Call for Abstracts: Theology and Dystopia Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson From the Greek dus- (“bad”)...

November 2020

November 07, 2020

The Theology of Post-Election Prayer

Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote that it makes no sense to hear the sound of fire...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Tony Banks’ Theology

I've been interested in the religious themes of Tony Banks' songs both as part of...

September 22, 2020

Christ in the Multiverse: An Interview with David Williams

I had the privilege of meeting David Williams (follow him on Twitter as @BelovedSpear) when...

August 2020

August 29, 2020

#CFP Fantasy, Theology, and the Imagination

Call for Papers: Fantasy, Theology, and the Imagination Edited by Austin M. Freeman, Andrew D....

August 25, 2020

Religion and Science Fiction Reading List

I want to share a number of things connected with my course on Religion and...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

Worship in Spirit and in Zoom

My Sunday school class returned to the Gospel of John as part of our discussion...

July 06, 2020

#CFP Online Resource in Science and Theology

This call for submissions recently came to my attention: How can theologians employ science in the service of...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Spiritual Resistance

Here are some excerpts from Paul Lakeland’s inspiring manifesto published in Commonweal: The many current...

June 16, 2020

#CFP Special Issue of the Journal Religions on “Christian Theologies of Jews and Judaism”

For nearly two millennia, Christian views of Jews and Judaism were almost exclusively critical and...

May 2020

May 21, 2020

Theology of Once in a Lifetime

It's an iconic song and arguably one of the most recognizable there is. It is...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Theology and Progressive Rock Brown Bag Recording

Here are recordings of the Brown Bag talk that my colleague Frank Felice and I...

January 26, 2020

Explaining Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

I recently found myself wondering how one might attempt to explain Star Trek V: The...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

Call for Names, Editors, and Contributors: Journal/Magazine of Fiction by Academics #CFP

I really shouldn't start new projects. But I've had so many conversations recently with academics...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Call for Papers: The Theological World of Harry Potter – edited volume #CFP

Editors: Taylor J. Ott (Fordham University) and Shaun Brown (Villa Maria College) Theology and Pop...

November 05, 2019

Trinity and Love

Dale Tuggy recently offered a counterargument to the claim that Trinitarian thinking is correct, or...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

Knowledge and Progress in Science, Theology, and the Arts

It was interesting to find myself discussing the question of whether the arts can provide...

September 06, 2019

ΘeoCon 2019: Cards for Divinity

Here's information about another upcoming speaking event related to the intersection of popular culture and...

August 2019

August 02, 2019

Announcing the Theology, Religion and Popular Culture Review #CFP

The Theology, Religion and Popular Culture Network will be starting the TRPC Review, a short online...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Batman and Theology #CFP

Editors: Matthew William Brake and Rev. C. K. Robertson, Ph.D. In 2019, Batman turned 80...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Putting Theologies to the Test

Today is Martin Luther King day, and the activity of King and other civil rights...

January 17, 2019

Reviews of Theology and Science Fiction

Andy Hickman kindly reviewed my book Theology and Science Fiction on Goodreads. Here's how his review...

January 16, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Thomas Jay Oord

This week's podcast features Thomas Jay Oord. His latest book is called God Can't, and...

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