Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA plea from Pittsburgh The post President Biden, Please Commute the Death Sentence of the Man Who Tried to Kill My Husband first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA plea from Pittsburgh The post President Biden, Please Commute the Death Sentence of the Man Who Tried to Kill My Husband first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
The ConversationTo stop a crime, it helps to understand who these criminals are and how they think.
The Other JournalHave you witnessed the moment when a young mother first sees her newborn child? Mother is holding her infant to herself, gazing into their face in rapture, smiling a joyous, self-giving, surprise-filled, welcome. Recently I learned from a seasoned...
The Other JournalI want to begin by thanking Esther Meek for her reflections on, as she describes it, the encounter of oneself with the other. In her sensitive essay, Meek describes the “primal encounter” between mother and infant that sets the foundation for...
The Other JournalI am grateful for the opportunity to interact with Esther Meek’s thoughts around the significance of the other and the real, all of which are a gift to the school. In her essay, she invites us to consider the importance of the early “face-to-face...
The Other JournalOh, how I long for the day as stated in Galatians 3:28-29 (Christian Standard Bible version) when “there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”[1] Quite often, when...
The Other JournalInvariably, in the opening weeks of my introductory biblical studies classes, a student will share that they are there because they want to know the “truth” about the Bible and about what “really happened.”[1] It eventually becomes clear they have...
The Other JournalEsther Meek in “The Other: Returning to Our Natal Philosophy in the Mother’s Smile” invites us into a relational knowing that is deeply dependent on and indebted to the other. Meek defines this other as “another being—the world, a person or...
The Other JournalIn reading Esther Lightcap Meek’s “The Other,” I had the surprising experience of being transported back to my own experience as a young father of a newborn, some thirty-four years ago.[1] To say the least, this reaction is unusual for me when...
The Other JournalThe beauty of what Esther Meek has invited us into through her essay “The Other” is a consideration of the interdependence of knowing. Pointing us to the relationship between a mother and child, she reminds us that we need one another, that...
The Other JournalNestled solidly within Esther Meek’s essay “The Other” is a profound dare to followers of the Jesus Way to relocate, maybe even rediscover, faith beyond reason.[1] Meek invites us to open to the real, to receive in the smile of the other an...
Canopy ForumIstanbul Skyline via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. One of the most grievous periods of Christian history in the land of Turkey...
The ConversationEthical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the notion of a digital afterlife into overdrive.
Du Mez CONNECTIONSThe first seven days of 2025
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraMy reply to the replies to my reply to David Brooks The post Against Bad Writing first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsMy reply to the replies to my reply to David Brooks The post Against Bad Writing first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post David Brooks Is Right first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post David Brooks Is Right first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post Being a Jewish Muslim Is Easier than Being a Jewish Christian first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post Being a Jewish Muslim Is Easier than Being a Jewish Christian first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post That Spiritual Stuff? Jews Have It, Too first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA response to Mark Oppenheimer and David Brooks The post That Spiritual Stuff? Jews Have It, Too first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Sowing the SeedHow do we choose to remember historical events? With dates like January 6, 2021, we have a lot to learn from seeing them as timelines and constellations.
White Too LongAnd an invitation to follow my reading in 2025.
Political TheologyAt best, a community's accumulated power lies not just in its ability to tear others down but in a desire to use Grace-given resources to affirm what oppression never can – that all are worthy of love, care, life, and dignity. Source
White Too LongPLUS, my interview about January 6th with Paul Raushenbush on The State of Belief
Canopy ForumLake Geneva by Dmitry A. Mottl (CC BY-SA 4.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. The analytic systems employed to identify religious freedom violations often run...
Wabash Center BlogLike so many others during the pandemic I picked up a new hobby. Breadmaking was already claimed by two others in my family, so I decided to turn to houseplants. […]
Sowing the SeedWhat do AI and large language models say about us? What I'm learning from Nathan Loewen and Don Kraybill.
Barth NotesFrom the Independent: Nigel Farage has launched a defence of Elon Musk’s incendiary social media attacks on Keir Starmer, claiming that “free speech is back” under the Tesla tycoon’s ownership of X (Twitter). The Reform UK leader said that “tough...
Ancient Jew ReviewIn this article, we argue that, despite and precisely because of these real cautions, public scholarship can further three core academic responsibilities: teaching, service, and even research.
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The Domination ChroniclesSome Musings on Knowledge and the Domination Code Framework
Religion in United States HistoryCall For Proposals: Special Issue of Journal of Mormon History
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2025.01.02 | Thea Gomelauri (with a contribution by Joseph Ginsberg). The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry (Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023). Review by Teófilo Correa, Adventist International Institute of Advance Studies...
An und für sichThis year I had the unique opportunity to visit both Athens and Rome (on separate trips). I’ve therefore seen a ton of ruins. In most of my travels, I’ve found ruins and archaeology in general less interesting than well-preserved artworks in...
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ReligionProfApparently today is National Science Fiction Day. While also writing an article about the Bible and AI, I tested out the latest version of ChatGPT available at the time (ChatGPT4o, with the letter ‘o’ abbreviating omni) as well as the specific...
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2025.01.01 | Dragos Andrei Giulea. Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople: Revisiting Trajectories in the Fourth-Century Christological Debates. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200. Brill, 2024. 309 pp. Review by Ched...
Wabash Center Blog(And audio recording of this blog may be found here.) Creative teachers are sometimes labelled as people who run wild — meaning we are people whose boundaries are too wide, […]
Du Mez CONNECTIONSOut with the old...
ReligionProfHave you been waiting for me to list the top 10 ReligionProf posts of 2024? Your wait is over. As has been typical in past years, I will focus on which posts were the most read this year, including posts written earlier, while also giving an...
Ancient Jew ReviewAncient Jew Review is thankful for our community of contributors and readers invested in learning about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. For the year of 2024, these are our ten most-read pieces published this year!
The Commons by APRIL OnlineAdd excerpt here. The post Scriptural Spirit Technologies and the Laboratory of Belief appeared first on April Online.
Political TheologyThe Kingdom of God - the kingdom pictured in Psalm 72 - seems a long way off, a dream growing more distant everyday as we move inexorably closer to the inauguration. Source
White Too LongPLUS, a look back at 2024 on White Too Long.
Political TheologyThis is a salutary call to counter the provincialism of narrow focus in individual fields (Classics often falls in this trap) by expanding the scope of study beyond any single culture. Source
Barth NotesFrom London Economic: In leaked messages seen exclusively by The London Economic, Robert Jenrick has said he is a “great admirer” of Inevitable West, a far-right X account with over 120,000 followers. The shadow justice secretary also said he...
Contending ModernitiesGrossman's story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death. The post David Grossman’s Camouflage of Violence appeared first on Contending Modernities.