@ReligionProf

Professor of Religious Studies and Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University

 Indianapolis
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Joined December 2009
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Bob Cornwall reviews Vulnerable God bobcornwall.com/2026/10/vuln…
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ICE supporter now being held by ICE roysreport.com/christian-com…

Christian commentator who defended mass deportation held for ICE | The Roys Report

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Vatican criticizes bishops who pose for photo praying over Donald Trump thelettersfromleo.com/p/past…

“Pastoral, Not Political” — Archbishop Golka Prays Over Trump 12 Days Before the Election

Denver’s archbishop led bishops in prayer over Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, with Paula White at his side. Hours later, Trump told Vivek Ramaswamy to keep running an ad calling Amy Acton a lia

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Bible Places Weekend Roundup, Part 1 bibleplaces.com/blog/2026/10…

Weekend Roundup, Part 1 - BiblePlaces.com

Tel Shiqmona is open to visitors after a two-year, $1 million renovation project. J. D. Cohen writes about ten important biblical archaeological finds. Efforts to restore the Birkatain archaeological...

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Sibyls and Sibylline oracles. 2. The Sibylline books kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2…

Sibyls and Sibylline oracles. 2. The Sibylline books

Prophets and apocalyptic poetry: the Sibyl's bargain with Tarquin and the surviving fragments of Rome's lost sacred books.

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Trump Compares Himself To Alexander The Great joemygod.com/2026/10/trump-c…

Trump Compares Himself To Alexander The Great

Trump shares this post from Roger Stone’s website: For Trump, naming extends far beyond commercial branding. He recognizes that the titles assigned to places, monuments, institutions, and ge…

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In Reddit ModWorld 2026 there was a discussion of AI. Some commenters said "AI art is art." I replied, "Heating up a TV dinner is cooking."
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Ethan Mollick
@emollickOct 23
By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work. As academics, we need to figure out how to adapt the practice of science to AI, fast.
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Replying to @rohanpaul_ai
Two links in that chain fail. An LLM predicts the next token from its context window, and eval-style prompts are a recognizable pattern from training. A spam filter detects spam too. Detecting a pattern isn't experiencing anything. #StopAnthropomorphizingAI #StopHumanizingAI
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Zach W. Lambert
@ZachWLambertOct 23
Really wish Elon had used this money to refund USAID so half a million kids wouldn’t have died.
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NEW — A filing cited by Politico shows Elon Musk put another $76 million into efforts to boost Republicans, bringing his total spending this cycle to $442 million.
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Steve McGuire
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How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed? At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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AI predictions: seven ways you can tell useful thinking from sci-fi fantasies naomialderman.substack.com/p…
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Humans who think chatbots are trustworthy, and who have access to nuclear weapons, are an existential threat. LLMs themselves are not. redletterchristians.org/2026…

In Response to President Trump’s Threats to Annihilate Iran, Religious and Faith Leaders Should...

There has been widespread condemnation of the immoral and illegal US and Israeli war against Iran by religious, faith, political, human rights leaders and many others, and urgent calls for peace.

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Trump Calls CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “Low IQ Dummy” joemygod.com/2026/10/trump-c…

Trump Calls CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “Low IQ Dummy”

TRUMP: “We were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said why aren’t you putting Russian sanctions—” KAITLAN COLLINS: “But you said you didn’t give anything for…

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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be

Nature - Large language models can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill. But evidence from neuroscience suggests that intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience.

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Replying to @ReligionProf @ksusze @SquidRelevance @america
To support a movement enriching billionaires and a trillionaires is bad enough. To project that on your opponents is silly and sad.
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The person blocked me to silence me, a Christian, while claiming that Christians are being silenced by others. Oh the irony…
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Congratulations to Daniel Maier! katholisch.de/kirche-in-deut…

Armin-Schmitt-Preis für zwei bibelwissenschaftliche Arbeiten

Preisträger aus Würzburg und Kopenhagen

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