Happy to share that my study notes on the Letter of Paul to Philemon are out now in the Westminster John Knox's NRSV-UE Study Bible.
NRSV-UE Notes on Philemon
The Secondhand Sacred with Dr. James Bielo
Dr. James Bielo looks at what the secondhand sacred market can tell us about how people trade in religion and more.
20 Years On… Theorizing Scripture: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon
On April 11-13, 2024, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures will be hosting a special annual meeting to commemorate two momentous occasions: The 20th Anniversary of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures and the 25th Anniversary of the African Americans and the Bible Project. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be highlighting some media to … Continue reading 20 Years On… Theorizing Scripture: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon
25 Years On… African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures
It wasn't a quest to find Black people within the canon or a liberative hermeneutic for Black people. African Americans and the Bible laid out an agenda for critically studying, as the accompanying anthology's subtitle states, "sacred texts and social textures."
Real Talk: CFPs and Stepping up the AAR and SBL Pre-Game
As I've written before, so much of academic life is trying to figure out how people fit into the boxes we use to make sense of our worlds. Knowing some of the politics and frustrations that entails, I've tried to use this website to open that process up a bit. And I appreciated sharing about that in some different venues.
