Next week religious studies scholars from around the world will gather in San Diego for the yearly meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. Many people will be involved in job interviews, both interviewing candidates and being interviewed for jobs. This can be an exhausting and bewildering experience for […]

In anticipation of a class discussion on Revelation, I was going back through Reading Revelation Responsibly by Michael Gorman and revisited this wonderful passage on the church’s identity and mission: The beautiful vision of “a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the […]

I’ve had a couple conversations lately about self-deception. In exegesis class we discussed 1 John 1:8 in which John describes certain people whose lives betray their profession. “They deceive themselves and the truth is not in them.” In an altogether different context, I’ve spoken with friends recently about sports figures who do not – cannot? […]