I have never had the type of hobbies that are shared by the masses. I have played golf once. I've never been confident enought to play pickup basketball. (I'm not whether the flesh is willing and the sprit is weak or the other way around.) I played one disastrous season of league softball, but that's … Continue reading Teaching Lessons from the Mat
Throughout 2025, we hosted Off-Script, a monthly conversation on scriptures, scholarship, and our subfield. Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, and the Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts, these Zoom discussions have been a great place to both develop and showcase … Continue reading Off-Script is Back, Jack!
The story of my writing career in one scene. Please convert your footnotes to in-text citation? Fine, I'll make the switch. Can you meet me halfway with chapter endnotes? Book endnotes! Isn't that a lot of work for the reader, sifting back through the bibliography to find the endnote section? ...not if there isn't a … Continue reading Get Off My Lawn and Leave my Footnotes Alone!
Were you to attend either of the following panels, ... what should we discuss so that the moment we share is not a waste of time?
In this series, "Sensations of Religion," students from Dr. Richard Newton introductory religion class explore the difference people make with "stuff" in discourses pertaining to religion. The first piece in our series questions author Dan Brown's claim that artificial intelligence may supersede religion's facility for connecting individuals. Elizabethtown College student E. Rider Brandau suggests that … Continue reading Dan Brown’s “Origin” and the Art(ifcial) of Religion
