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Gender, Gospel of Jesus's Wife
On Institutional Responsibilities and on Gender: Final thoughts on the G of Jesus Wife
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 […]
In the DHSI Physical Computing class, Anne Cong-Huyen (Whittier College), Devin Becker (University of Idaho), and I created a project we titled “Signaling Crisis” for our end of week prototype. This project was a true […]
Gender, Gospel of Jesus's Wife
On Kindness and Critique: my thoughts 2 years ago on the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”
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 […]
I’ve been blogging this week about my participation in a physical computing and fabrication course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Our instructors have been the team of the University of Victoria Maker Lab, directed […]
There have been some really great conversations on Twitter and Facebook this morning about the article in the Atlantic on the owner of the Jesus Wife fragment. I want to add some more thoughts that […]
Ariel Sabar has a new article out in the Atlantic digging into the provenance of the papyrus known as the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife or the Jesus Wife fragment. Sabar makes a strong case that […]
This past spring, I purchased a small 3d printer with the goal of experimenting with it to understand 3d fabrication a bit better before taking the Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication class at DHSI. I […]
My first day in Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication (yesterday) at DHSI involved playing around with an Arduino kit — basically a little computer board you can add lots of components to to make some cool […]
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between academic scholarship and the atrocities of war. In particular the role of digital scholarship: its potential for protesting these […]
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 […]
RELI104, RELI130, Teaching, University of the Pacific
Embodied Pedagogy: Pilgrimage and Lego Temples
This past week in both the classes I’m teaching this semester, we played around with embodied pedagogy. In Religious Studies, this is no easy thing. “Experiential learning” may be all the rage, but I’m not […]