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Interview: David Anthony Basham on Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor

David Anthony Basham and Nadya Williams   |  December 12, 2024

Like Jesus, everyone has their “Paul.”

The Author’s Corner with Edward B. Davis

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 19, 2024

Edward B. “Ted” Davis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. This interview is based on his new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion […]

Howard Thurman and the civil rights movement

John Fea   |  April 19, 2023

Black Perspectives is running an online forum on civil rights activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman. Here are the pieces they have published: Tejai Beulah Howard, Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt Dorsey Blake, Beyond Faiths and […]

Why don’t more theology students take history courses?

John Fea   |  April 18, 2023

At the school where I teach there are ample opportunities for students to shape their intellectual experience through a double “major” or a “minor” or two. Just the other day, for example, I was talking to one of my academic […]

Raphael Warnock: theologian

John Fea   |  December 7, 2022

If you haven’t seen it yet, Gary Dorrien has published a fascinating piece at Commonweal. on re-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock It provides several first-hand of accounts of his years at Union Theological Seminary (where Dorrien teaches) and his relationship […]

The latest musical number from N.T. Wright and Francis Collins

John Fea   |  December 24, 2021

N.T. Wright is one the world’s most prominent biblical scholars. Francis Collins is the former Director of the National Institutes of Health. Watch: See their first collaboration here:

“The humanities face continued marginalization despite increasing evidence of the broad civic and social harm that results from neglecting them.”

John Fea   |  May 27, 2021

The quote in the title of this post comes from Grant Kaplan’s piece “The Crisis in Catholic Theology” published last week at America. Here is a taste: Today, although concern for the future of Catholic universities remains high, relatively little […]