What’s on the table when we claim that a newly-discovered text came from a Biblical author?  To answer that question might take an investigation that spans the Roman Empire, desert…

Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read.  In the twenty-two years since I first read A Theology of the Old Testament…

 I’ve had a working hypothesis for quite a while now that stories about the devil tell us about as much about an author’s priorities as anything else.  Milton’s devils and…

Listen here Marie Hause, Katie Grubbs, and Christina Bieber Lake take on biblical bad girl Queen Athaliah. Knowing Background on Queen Athaliah Summary of the context and content of 2…

There’s a lot of poetry in the Bible. Anyone who flips through its pages can see how many have that telltale jagged edge of printed verse. But it’s not only…

Marie Hause, Carla Godwin, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer discuss the Song of Songs. Listen here. Knowing Background on the Song of Songs, its history of interpretation, and why it’s of…

Download or Stream this Episode  Some people just don’t know what to do with Paul.  Browsing a bookstore will reveal attempts to pit him against Jesus, to make him the…

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the deuterocanonical book “The Wisdom of Solomon.”

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the New Testament book Galatians.

Download or Stream this Episode Most of us Christians in the twenty-first century have a strong sense, even if not a theoretical account, that the New Testament is at once…

On the newest episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Sam and I put the Reformation on hold for a moment to consider the Christianity that lies on the other side of…

y Knowing Background on the novel and television show (taken largely from this NYT piece) Our experiences with the novel Our summer series and Victoria’s fifteen-year Handmaid’s Tale journey Reading Dystopia by…

Super-listener Chen Bu Lei posed some good questions and concerns about my Christian Humanist Profiles interview with Daniel Kirk about his recent book A Man Attested by God, and I…

Download this Episode At the core of the Christian’s confession we encounter the claim “Jesus is Lord.” It’s a bold claim, perhaps even confrontational, and for the faithful it’s the…

Download or stream this episode. David Grubbs talks about the early Christian text the Didache with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer.