Please liberal Christians read Eugene Peterson www.christiancentury.org/features/ple...

Rewilding Prayer is now available: wipfandstock.com/979838524722...

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...): events.humanitix.com/to-listen-an...

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! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

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:

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...

Fear is an attention hungry little liar thecorners.substack.com/p/fear-is-an...

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

Good to explore this week’s readings with my excellent colleague, Old Testamant scholar, Monica Melanchthon: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...

It was good to be with people from across denominations - Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox - to explore the Nicene Creed at the Remembering Nicaea conference. People stayed in the room, disagreed well, and prayed together. Great to give a paper and to lead worship in this ecumenical context.

“We just come up with some truly terrible ways of trying to ensure we are seen and loved…and then we end up in conflict or competition with all the other people who are also trying in weird ways to be seen and loved” Nadia Bolz-Weber

Some great quotes from Walter Bruggemann sojo.net/articles/rad...

The kingdom of kindness … Honoured to be quoted in this salient article by Julie Perrin in The Age: www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...

“When you can see moral beauty in others, you will find goodness in yourself as well,” writes Arthur C. Brooks. “If you simply want a sure way to get happier, looking for such moral beauty might be just what you need”:

Sigur Rós - so beautiful last night in Melbourne. Thank you 🙏 @sigurros.com

It was great to join Tim for this conversation about early church understandings of Jesus as the female divine.