One last update from this very busy March so far…
A project @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social and I have been cooking for a while has gone live at biblereception.com 🎉
Growing out of our methods reading group, BRIM is going to be a one stop hub for all things Bible and reception.
We have TWO exciting opportunities to join our team📢
Join our passionate Visitor Experience team and help us inspire a love for Scotland’s marine wildlife!
More information on how to apply is available on our website (see below)🔗
Saturday afternoon joy ❤️ @lrb.co.uk
Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/fo...
Just started this book by @chelseaebin.bsky.social: fantastically well written, interesting, and (unfortunately) highly relevant!
2026-28/29 Postdoc in Early Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Part of project "Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity". FT/fixed term: 2 years renewable for Year 3. Deadline 8 March. nt4ox.link/radboud-PDF26
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
Can’t wait to read this!
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...
A small square book with pink binding that says Saints and The National Gallery on the cover.
The title page, with my name
📣 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!
Cartoon picture of a bed with a fitted sheet partly stretched over it. Caption is 'It is specifically designed to very nearly fit but not quite'. Additional picture of someone 'wrestling with the dreaded fourth corner'.
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...
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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...
#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...
