@bg__white

NT interpreter and theologian | teaching @BostonCollege | views my own

 Connecticut, USA
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Joined July 2018
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I'm excited to announce that a revised edition of my book on Paul's 'strength in weakness' in 2 Corinthians releases with @ivpacademic this October! Originally a monograph with @mohrsiebeck, this edition adds material for pastors/students. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/tppmpk92
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The worst C. S. Lewis adaptation was that one where his fans made him into an evangelical.
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I'm currently writing my paper for the Romans and Christian Theology conference next weekend @ptseminary! It offers a proposal for how to move the 'Paul and Politics' conversation beyond Wright-Barclay debates. Looking forward to the excellent lineup! ptsem.edu/academics/departme…

Romans and Christian Theology Conference

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Happy Pastor Appreciation Day. We appreciate you keeping the sermon short so we can beat the Methodists to the Golden Corral.
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New Issue of New Testament Studies now available 📚 cup.org/4y66ssu #NewTestament #ReligiousStudies
New Issue of New Testament Studies now available

ALT New Issue of New Testament Studies now available

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The SBL promotion has started! My book is 40% off with free US shipping at ivpress.com/pain-and-paradox… with code IVP26SBL.
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11 years ago this past week we moved to Durham, UK! Time flies but so grateful to have lived and studied there.
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Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyOct 1
The brain trust at Anthropic has no concept of what sin is, as evidenced by the fact that they think a free agent "could be made to choose goodness." It doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. Some famous stories that illustrate this, in fact. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 2
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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The advance copies are arriving!! And friends are already posting about the book. Thank you! You can preorder here for an Oct. 20th delivery: tinyurl.com/5n6tdb8e
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One of the best Christian takes on AI ethics and limits has to be Meghan Sullivan's DELTA project at Notre Dame. If you're looking for some hope amidst the daily AI doom scrolling, this @commonwealmag podcast episode is awesome: commonwealmagazine.org/podca…

A Middle Way for AI?

The Catholic Church was made for this moment. Its intellectual tradition can make a forceful stand for human dignity as AI accelerates.

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Hannes Kerber@HannesKerberSep 27
On September 27, 1940, Walter Benjamin ended his life while fleeing the Gestapo.
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Charlie Collier@cmcollier1Sep 21
I’ll believe people are really concerned about the ill effects of parents’ decisions on their children when I hear some concern—any at all—about what wealth and privilege–hoarding does to children. 1/
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John Ganz@lionel_trollingSep 21
Joe Bernstein@BernsteinSep 20
This isn’t a novel point, but underneath many of the morally-charged discoursey arguments on here is the lack of a common moral ground. And these arguments are actually proxies for distinct moral positions that may not even be understood by the arguers.
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Partly a review of Mark Goodacre's latest book The Fourth Synoptic Gospel, partly a reflection on what I'm taking away from it and where our field might go from here. patheos.com/blogs/religionpr…

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel

Mark Goodacre is right. The Gospel of John is literally a Synoptic Gospel. But the book's insight goes far beyond terminology...

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I'm currently working out of a folder named 'Writing 2025' and [checks notes] it's nearly 2027. Ah, the writing life.
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Meryl Streep or not, I love this doorknob on the rectory where Thomas Hamilton, C.S. Lewis's grandfather, lived in Belfast. Lewis never mentions the doorknob, but he spent lots of time here and many speculate that it planted a seed in the young Lewis's mind.
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"If you find out that a friend or neighbor is a university professor, you’d probably ask them, 'What do you teach?' And if they squirm when asked, that’s because many faculty often do not see teaching as their primary job." I initially came here to say that the degradation of teaching in higher-education is a tertiary concern in the decline of higher-ed, but then I sat with it some more and realized, no, that's really how we got here. Bogost's article is worth a read. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

College Is Coming Apart

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

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@LovandfearSep 16
“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.” ― J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Muppet Brothers Karamazov
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It's too bad there wasn't at least one more Muppets movie in this format, honestly I wish they were still putting out one every few years to this day. It's a perfect film format for them: classic literature with muppets in the supporting roles & a juicy role for a "real" actor. Muppet Treasure Island actually did even better at the box office than Christmas Carol so I don't get why they bailed on the concept for the forgettable "Muppets From Space" next
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