WHY DIDNT ANY OF YOU EVER TELL ME ABOUT THIS EASTER EGG IN CAPTAIN AMERICA?!!!!??!!?

Are The Hunger Games just Jesus Christ Superstar redivivus? People are asking.

Preparing to update my colleagues on this semester's scholarly activity at our annual faculty retreat:

A Wabash Center blog I wrote in which Ramona Quimby’s Kindergarten teacher, Miss Binney, gives a practical lesson in giving a shit about students: bit.ly/4lPr5UH

Banner day

How to build rapport with your seminary colleagues:

Happy Bon Iver day!

My institution is hiring a Director of Seminary Admissions. We are looking for: ◾️Someone with a master's degree (preferably in a theological field) ◾️who will recruit for and promote the seminary ◾️while being based in Dubuque, IA www.dbq.edu/aboutud/empl...

The Last Supper in Godspell (1973)

Assessing student work is so much more fun when these are the books they are reporting on:

The Synoptic Gospels program unit will have the following sessions at the 2025 annual meeting of the SBL. All are open for submissions: –Two open sessions –Synoptics and queer and/or trans hermeneutics –Enslavement in the Synoptics Consider submitting! CFP closes March 25.

Need assistance figuring out what Bible film to watch? I am here to help!

If you want to desensitize your kids from gluing their eyes to any screen that happens to be on, throw _The Greatest Story Ever Told_ on in your living room. Mine watched about 37 seconds before peacing out.

Presbyterian Outlook banned by Instagram: What happened and where to find us now Presbyterian Outlook’s Instagram was suspended by Meta without explanation. Learn what happened and where to find us now. @Terimott.bsky.social #Meta

*Trivia time* Question: Which noncanonical/apocryphal gospel has Balthasar, the wiseman, witness Jesus’s crucifixion?

How will you be using the enddei.ed.gov site?

Evangelicals have seen this before.

I told Greek students today that my mnemonic for ενεγκον as the third principal (2nd aorist) part of φερω was a fellow student muttering "fucking φερω" every time it appeared not as a present. Not missing a beat, a student said, "That's what Moses said." And that’s the Bible joke of the year.

Today I am writing about Ben-Hur themed roller coasters in early 20th cent. American amusement parks because Bible research has long tentacles.

Day one was great!

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Out here, once again, doing the Lord's work in the quiz questions. You're welcome, future homily/sermon hearers.

The neat thing about being a New Testament professor who is super into indie dad rock is that sometimes you get to see your most favorite artists out-theologize and out-exegete the jabronis.

It’s 51° in Iowa and so this is what work looks like this afternoon. Could be worse.

On a scale of Mr. Rogers to Samwise Gamgee, what’s your pedagogical kindness vibe?

I just signed up for a three-day bookbinding workshop at my local art center. I am absolutely ecstatic. This is what peak middle-age academic interested in book history looks like, in case you were wondering.

Strava, but for writing and research

Me: *uploads a lecture video on first-declension noun endings* The LMS:

I was today years old when I learned that the producer of the first Bible film and the producer of the first erotic film were one and the same. Not that surprising, TBH.

See what happens when you wash your Etruscan mirrors with dish detergent. Smh

Allusionism to Da Vinci’s Last Supper (1498) in Mary Magdalene (2018).

Reductionist af, NYT. (Sorry for the spoiler.)

Pedagogy reading groups are my love language. Excited to lead discussions on this book in the spring.

If you haven’t been listening to Jon Batiste’s _Beethoven Blues_, now is the time.

FYI #SBLAAR24 folks, if you have the time, energy, and desire to walk along the water, you can actually walk to San Diego airport from the conference area! it's 2-3 miles, depending on your point of departure

Gospel Media in the exhibit hall wild. #sblaar24

First #sblaar24 run group meeting in the books. @runhudi.bsky.social @nickelder.bsky.social @maklelan.bsky.social and others hit the road at 6:30 this morning.

Another starter pack - this one for Hebrew Bible scholars.

Decompressing from talking to too many people on day one of conferencing by…responding to emails? Wtf even is this academic life.

Is this meme included in my presentation in the Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies for #SBLAAR24? Only one way to find out...

One of my #SBLAAR tips: get outside every now and again. There are two little parks behind the convention center and a walkway all right on the water. This is a nice places to move, get some sunshine, etc. Or walk into the gaslight district. Don’t forget you are a human with a body!

I like running lots of places. But I especially like running in warm places by the water. There are plans for two group runs at #SBLAAR24 (that I know of): Saturday and Monday at 6:30 AM. Meet outside the convention center. No-person-left-behind pace.

Ok one more. #SBLAAR24

#3: my version of specs/un grading does not play well with my institution’s LMS’s landing page that provides students an overview of their grades. This is an important tool for a number of campus wntities, including students, and assumes a scaled, percentage-based grading model. #ungradingchat

Bible apps use skeuomorphs to project bookishness.

#2: I use a mix of ungrading philosophy (“the rules are made up and the points don’t matter”), specs grading execution for final grades, and scaled grading for automated MC quizzes, exams etc.

San Diego, CA 📍

Starter pack: women in Christian theology & ministry. go.bsky.app/93QuBQz

#1: grades are imperfect measures of learning that, especially when unexamined and undiscussed, foster adversarial relationships between faculty and students and promote systemic inequities. Yet grades can also provide useful benchmarks and motivations when utilized graciously. #ungrading