Rooted in tradition and creating new things
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TALKING

TWO RECENT THINGS
I created and hosted a video for my university, now used by students and other faculty in various settings, to help guide students through ethical AI use in their research. And I hosted a conversation with one of the world’s foremost Civil War historians and a university president on the U.S. Civil War and renewed fears about conflict in our time.

THE WEIRD RELIGION PODCAST
100+ episodes, co-hosted with scholar of American religious history Leah Payne
Interviews and dialogue about TV, movies, books popular culture, and religion
On Apple, Spotify, website



 

TELEVISION, PODCAST GUEST, AND OTHER CONTENT

“Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil” (on YouTube)
Conversation with Dr. Javier Garcia

“Phoenicians in America,” Part 1, Part 2 (TV appearance)
Guest Scholar on Travel Channel’s “America Unearthed”

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

”Ask the Animals: Nature and Theodicy in the Book of Job” (on YouTube)
Delivered at the University of Alberta, Canada (March 2017)

”Is There a Future for Teaching the Bible in Universities?” (on YouTube)
Delivered at the University of Alberta, Canada (March 2017)

”Does God Command Genocide in the Bible?” (on YouTube; first panel speaker, at 5:50)
William Penn Honors Forum, at George Fox University (October 2018)

Lecturing at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2017 on the role of biblical studies at Universities

Lecturing at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2017 on the role of biblical studies at Universities

 

TEACHING CONTENT
Full video lecture content for “The Problem of Evil” (on the philosophy and theology of suffering)
Click here for the YouTube playlist