I'm getting pretty tired of all my favorite books being "adapted" by hacks, having spinoffs and reboots made that dishonor the originals etc. ‘The Winter King’ Should Have Been A Massive Hit — It Was Cancelled For One Very Good Reason via @forbes forbes.com/sites/erikkain…

Oratory and poetry? Yes please

Great thread on magic in fantasy by "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

My latest book is 70% off on Amazon today! If you haven't picked it up, you probably should :-) amazon.com/Paul-Imperial-…

This sibling group is looking for a family to adopt them. They need a two-parent home characterized by warmth & support. Contact Project Zero in Arkansas. America, please don’t let them age out of the system! The statistics aren’t in their favor the longer they remain orphans.

Coming late December/early 2025: the updated and expanded version of my dissertation....

One of the questions I get most frequently involves Jesus' statements about being sent only "to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" in Matthew 10:5–6 and with the Canaanite woman in Matt 15:24. How do these statements square with other early Jewish authors' use of "Israel"?

I took the C. S. Lewis course, and it was absolutely worth it.

So... this story is pretty bananas. I've been wanting to do this interview for about a week now but I was really struggling to figure out how to make it what I wanted to be: a story about someone who felt compelled, and acted on those convictions, to show Christlike love for

Superb points by Christoph Heilig More attention to the text and to Paul's reception of texts and narratives, fewer appeals to nebulous "traditions," all informed by the central insight(s) of PwJ scholarship

Not sure what you think this shows. 1) The Glasgow meeting was COP26, not 27. 2) Your links show the U.S. and EU have significantly lowered coal usage each year since 2021. 3) >80% of coal usage in 2023 was in China and India, and they snubbed COP27.

My lecture “Salvation by Moral Transformation: What Paul Really Means by Grace” given in November at Campbell University has been posted online. Share as you like: campbelluniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/…

our annual Theology Conference is this Thursday and Friday. On "Preaching the Parables." we'll hear from Jeannine Brown, Thomas Long, Scot McKnight, et al. I'll talk on preaching the Law in the parables. It's all zoomable! Details below.

my book on Jesus and the Law with Baker Academic is coming out Aug 19. The preorder on Amazon is live, and preorders really help! Also, it's available at Baker's page for 30% less than the Amazon price ($23 rather than $33). Baker's link is below.

This professor goes to a talk by a leading scholar — which he doesn’t understand because he’s not an expert on the topic — so then he asks AI about the topic, and concludes that because AI can produce a dumbed-down explainer that he understands, AI out-performed the human expert.

My hot take on this is that a writer's commentary on their work only has merit if it's actually in agreement with the fundamental reality of their work. Herbert's commentary on Dune is sketchy at best. Dune clearly portrays Paul as a tragic hero. If Herbert disagrees, then it's

Mass Effect may be the perfect 'hardness' of sci-fi for my tastes. Yes there's some space magic (techno babbled as science) and yes there is obvious handwaving. But the writers (at least in the first one) knew when they were breaking reality and if you dig into the codex, you

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

What if computers are fundamentally, ontologically incapable of grasping meaning?

My favorite part of the day is the 30–45 minutes I spend reading with my kids before bed. It affords daily opportunities to converse and watch them grow emotionally, improve their reasoning, laugh uncontrollably, and find delight in discovery.