The disciples leave everything to follow Jesus. Except when they do not.
An exploration of discipleship within Mark’s Gospel - in which the home remains integral - and the implications of this.
My latest article in JSNT:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“the university is meant to serve as no less than an ecosystem that reliably forms human expertise and judgment”
Excited to share a link to my latest article in JSNT. Despite the rhetoric, in Mark’s Gospel the disciples do not leave everything to follow Jesus. I trace this evidence and explore some of the ramifications for constructions of discipleship.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament Vol. 48, No. 3 (2026) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/3 Jesus, House, Family @sallydouglas.bsky.social
One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.
(Belated) Photos from the launch of my new book Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas.
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For our Australian members close to Melbourne BUT there are online options too for international folks who are further away (or in different time zones...):
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Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
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A glimpse of the cover of my new book REWILDING PRAYER, with hearty thanks to designer Mike Surber from Cascade Books.
It is on the way…
This!
"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela:
Beautiful - drawn from the Wisdom of Solomon 7
So am I. Fellow New Testament scholars, how might we build alliances across the globe to protect our work from AI harvesting?
@sblsite.bsky.social
Uncomfortable with the idea that Jesus died for our sins?
In the New Testament other understandings of salvation are not only present, they are more dominant.
My latest (open access) article explores one of these and its potency in our stormy world:
unitingchurchstudies.org.au/index.php/uc...
“The greatest reason to take AI doomers seriously is not because it appears more likely that tech companies will soon develop all-powerful algorithms … Rather, it is that a tiny number of individuals are shaping an incredibly consequential technology with very little public input or oversight. “
Winter wattle
“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” – @patrickstokes.com on #GenAI and #artists
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
A strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era, @cwarzel.bsky.social argues. “It seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.”
“… such acts, multiplied across a society, can quietly erode the foundations of power. Arendt admired such acts not for their spectacle but for their stubbornness.”
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
“I see politeness* as today’s punk rock because it so transgresses the spirit of our times . . . It is the ultimate exercise in freedom: the freedom to be the person I want to be in the face of a cultural tyranny.” Arthur C Brooks
*and I would add proactive kindness
Good to explore the lectionary readings for Sunday with Old Testament scholar Howard Wallace on the By the Well podcast: bythewell.com.au/episodes/c23...
Kiasmos - what a joy-full gig in Melbourne.
@olafurarnalds.bsky.social
@kiasmos.music-social.com
