Honored to be speaking in this series tomorrow night. Not to give too much away, but I will make the case that borders aren’t biblical (even if I don’t want to save the Bible for justice either)

Hi, friends. An FYI for those interested: I've published an article in JSP about Esther as "American scripture." Includes analysis of the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" (2024) and its strategies for regulating free speech, higher education, immigration, and foreign policy.

There's an opening for a postdoctoral researcher focussed on Haredi communities in the ERC-funded project ‘Governing Health, Family and Religion: The Biopolitics of Genetic Counselling and Religious Family Formations (RELI-GENE). Two year contract. vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/830121

If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Over the next year, I’ll be transitioning into the role of editor-in-chief for the journal Biblical Interpretation. So a reminder to all you who work on biblical and adjacent materials to consider submitting. brill.com/view/journal...

📣 New Book Day! 📣 Delighted to share a sneak peek at Saints, my new picture book for grown ups. She’s a beauty, written with everyone who‘s ever wandered round the NG with me in mind Coming this June to the NG shop and online, but available for preorder now: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781857...

We have a PhD position open (four years, full funding): www.umu.se/en/work-with...

The new STK is out! And it's a special issue on "Global Public Theology" with fascinating articles by Jakob Wirén, @digitaldion.bsky.social, Annette Langner-Pitschmann, @vincent.northsky.social, and Fatima Tofighi (plus my inaugural lecture on "Public Theology for the Postmigrant Society").

Lecturers in Biblical Studies have been awarded a Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies Grant for the project "Encountering Biblical Bodies". Holly Morse & @siobhanjolley.bsky.social are working with colleagues across @uomsalc.bsky.social to host an exhibition & and symposium. Watch this space!

Important book by @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social and @ulrichschmiedel.bsky.social a must read for Christians of all denominations recommended to me by my old friend and teacher Rev Prof Will Storrar.

Just published my first piece for the Conversation! It’s on Thecla and her reception within Christianity. theconversation.com/thecla-the-b...

Delighted to report that my book, The Specter of the Archive, was awarded the Bainton Prize in History from @16csociety.bsky.social. It's about an early modern media revolution but speaks directly and pointedly to the one we're living through today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

New issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Vol. 48, No. 2 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/2 @sagepub.com @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @ntright.bsky.social @clarissabreu.bsky.social @lhuber.bsky.social The Future of Revelation and Gender Studies

The deadline is coming up…

… and another response and another response to a response are out. This time in conversation with Fatima Tofighi.

Happy that the Syndicate Symposium on my "Terror and Theology" (@mohrsiebeck.bsky.social 2021) is out! Given how many talk about the return of "Großraum" à la Schmitt again, it's weirdly timely. Unfortunately! Thanks so much to Ryszard Bobrowicz (@bobry.bsky.social) for putting it all together!

The fitted sheet: specifically designed to very nearly fit, but not quite. From the book Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. Which is [capitalisation] AVAILABLE NOW - amzn.to/4pSA2ym and the other Amazons.

Here it is, the last article to come into print this year: remarks from the roundtable at @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social’s professorial inauguration. journals.lub.lu.se/STK/article/...

In case you need inspiration for a Sunday walk by the Water of Leith. The walkway made the list www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

A little reminder that my pamphlet First, I Turn Off the Light is currently out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💡 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Volume 5 of Global Secularity is out! Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, 58 chapters explore how contemporary secularities emerged from local histories, political struggles, and colonial encounters. 🔗 Read it #openaccess here: www.degruyterbrill.c...#openaccess #ReligiousStudies #AARSBL

‘As for the “open” bit, forget it – that aspect of Open AI’s mission was quietly forgotten. Any discoveries the company might make were now proprietary.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Fall 2025 season of #ScripturesEverywhere has come to a close. Thank you to all who joined us. We'll be back in February with a special session from Alabama; or, join me in person at the annual meeting. Visit signifyingscriptures.org for more information.

Proud to have published this increasingly topical book: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Nice to see that the @theguardian.com podcast Today in Focus discusses the book "The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right" that I co-wrote with @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social for @scmpress.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Thrilled to see @theguardian.com podcast Today in Focus drawing on the book "The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right" that I co-wrote with @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social for @scmpress.bsky.social. (Although I'm a bit sick of the hijacking metaphor in this context...)

The multi-faith-based refugee relief network I’ve been working with are fundraising. These are amazing activists doing difficult work under conditions that are getting worse and worse - they’ll make the most out of every little donation!

Time has gone by so fast already but I was grateful to spend time at the amazing Institute for European Ethnology in Berlin all November, with @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social

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Heron posing like royalty on the Water of Leith #Edinburgh #birds

“As I prepared my syllabus, I came to see the fascism question as a distraction. Antifascist writers from the last century do have much to teach us about our own moment, but not because far-right politics today is the same as it was then.” – Mac Loftin www.christiancentury.org/features/fas...

‘The strike is another means of applying urgent pressure on the government, using the only tools available to the prisoners: their rapidly deteriorating bodies.’ E.S. Wight on an ongoing hunger strike in British prisons. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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If you are interested in thinking about borders and the Bible, here’s a new article. It traces a complex history between the Bible and the borders of modern nation states. So it’s relevant to the challenge of Christian nationalism. It’s also open access so take a look. doi.org/10.1093/jts/...

Lund's Centre for Theology and Religious Studies is advertising PhD positions in Jewish Studies, Hebrew Bible, Philosophy of Religion, and Practical Theology. Come work with us!

Nice to see this was on display even if I couldn’t be there to see it (and everyone) in person! #AARSBL2025

Don't forget to pick up your display copies from SBL Press in booth 301 before Noon! #AARSBL2025

Excited to see this in the flesh at the AAR/SBL. @tristansturm.bsky.social and Andrew Crome have put together an excellent volume. I have a chapter on political theology and apocalypticism which is the first published version of my work on what I'm calling new apocalyptic tones.

Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25

Definitely go to this if you’re in Boston, Tommy’s papers are always brilliant!

Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...

‘It’s possible that the history of printing is a stitched-together story of the movement of knowledge from East to West, rather as paper-making spread from Asia through the Arab world from the eighth century.’ Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Why does the First Amendment often fail to stand as a bulwark against official religious prejudice, as was the case with the Muslim ban? My latest for Canopy Forum, drawing on my new book Heaven Has a Wall.

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