Author’s note: as I was writing this post, Michelle Obama gave a campaign speech in New Hampshire for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Instead of her usual stump speech, she spoke primarily about the nationwide conversation we […]
Close to two weeks ago, the 11th Congress the International Association of Coptic Studies concluded. Every 4 years, some scholars in Coptic Studies gather for a fairly traditional conference. I’ve been going to the Congress […]
In my forthcoming article, I wrote that comments by Eva Mroczek and Meredith Warren had been deleted from the Evangelical Text Criticism blog in 2014; in fact comments by other people were deleted. I appreciate […]
Image: Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis & Dr. Margaret Dunlop Gibson (the “Sisters of Sinai”) via Cambridge University Library I’m thrilled that Tony Burke of York University has posted a pre-publication draft of my article, “Gender and […]
Two years ago, my former colleague and all around smart, kind, and funny person Anthony LeDonne invited me to give an interview on the so-called Gospel of Jesus’s Wife on The Jesus Blog. I revisited […]
This fall, I will have the privilege of seeing a book I co-edited with the amazing Catherine M. Chin appear in print. Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family contains articles by an incredible […]
Friday I traveled to my homestate of Arizona and back to celebrate the life of a woman close to me and to my family, Judge Sarah Dickenson Grant. Sarah was my mother’s best friend, and her […]