@ReligionProf

Professor of Religious Studies and Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University

 Indianapolis
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Joined December 2009
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This is my quote of the week (maybe month or year). “Folks, if you are trying to keep people from using AI because of data center use, protesting on meta platforms is a pretty ironic life choice.” - Lisa Meece
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Exploration of what discernment means and why it is necessary in the era of AI agents marcwatkins.substack.com/p/d…
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Kevin Young writes, "Progressive churches are not dying because of progressive theology; they are being sabotaged by evangelicalism." Do you agree? kevinyoung.substack.com/p/re…
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Introducing Super Koine Quest: A Free New Testament Greek Vocabulary Game niedergall.com/introducing-s…

Introducing Super Koine Quest: A Free New Testament Greek Vocabulary Game

Anyone who has studied NT Greek vocabulary with flashcards knows the routine: review, forget, review again. While it works, it's not a lot of fun. Super Koine Quest is my attempt to make learning...

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Appeals court sides with religious groups in immigration enforcement lawsuit christiancentury.org/news/ap…

Appeals court sides with religious groups in immigration enforcement lawsuit

A federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of 27 ecumenical and interfaith partners in a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s removal of “sensitive locations” protections for houses of...

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The Humanities Are Shrinking. Their Ideas Are Everywhere. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/t…
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The Chosen – season five, episode two petertchattaway.substack.com…
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The mixed joys of not joining in musicformass.blog/2026/10/01…

The mixed joys of not joining in - Music for Mass

The mixed joys of not joining in. I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable at Mass on Sunday mornings.

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This is not your father’s second act irinadumitrescu.substack.com…
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Book Announcement: 40 Questions about Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha readingacts.com/2026/10/02/b…

Book Announcement: 40 Questions about Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha - Reading Acts

What is a good book introducing the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha? 40 Questions Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

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Atheism Has Fundamentalists Too brucegerencser.net/2026/10/a…

Atheism Has Fundamentalists Too

Nineteen years ago, as a newly minted unbeliever, I shared my “testimony” on a well-known ex-Christian site. Initially, I found support from several congenial atheists who, upon seeing that I was...

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When A Bible is Not A Bible: the Anyike Kitabu wilgafney.com/2026/10/05/whe…

When A Bible is Not A Bible: the Anyike Kitabu

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Fred Clark on the Telmarines patheos.com/blogs/slacktivis…

Daughters Of Adam And Sons Of Eve

This is a story about a boy who needs his mother told by a man who never quite got over being a boy who needed his mother. It is a story about a son of Eve and a daughter of Adam.

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A Casserole is Not a Counterpoint patheos.com/blogs/anxiousben…

A Casserole Is Not A Counterpoint

If there's a lack of curiosity that’s crept into discourse about evangelicals, the answer isn’t a shot of good press to counteract the bad. The remedy is a bit of historical empathy that can hold...

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Commentary on Mark 14:12-31 biblicalscholarship.wordpres…

Commentary on Mark 14:12-31

Notes (NET Translation) 12 Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare fo…

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The Spectre of Islam: Muslims’ (Absent) Presence in James Bond Filmography kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/10…

The Spectre of Islam: Muslims’ (Absent) Presence in James Bond Filmography — KEN CHITWOOD

The scene opens with a sonorous call to prayer ( adhan ) as the camera pans left across Cairo’s beige cityscape, bathed in an early morning desert “heat haze” (Wood, 50). Viewers are beckoned into a...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg writes, "Torah merits nothing if it's about the survival of the Jewish people at the expense of another people." The same goes for the gospel... lifeisasacredtext.com/on-the…

on the turning away

When will American Jews reckon on Israel-Palestine?

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Ryan Burge writes, "evangelicals and Black Protestants may strongly disagree at the ballot box but they often walk in lockstep during Sunday services and midweek Bible study." graphsaboutreligion.com/p/ar…

Are Black Protestants and White Evangelicals Actually the Same?

Stripping away politics reveals a surprising alignment in American religion.

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Eighty Years of Atla: A Rich History of Convening atla.com/blog/eighty-years-o…

Eighty Years of Atla: A Rich History of Convening

Read about the history of Atla Annual and review recent Atla Annual conference resources.

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