Wil Rogan

“Bad times! Hard times!” — this is what people are saying. But let us live well, and the times shall be well. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.

—St. Augustine of Hippo, a sermon on prayer during the slow collapse of the Roman Empire

— Romney wins in 2012

My children ask for the “other version of ‘who are you now’ by Madison Cunningham”

Few know this

A cast bronze skull supporting a Dell computer monitor

kneath dell

(a memento mori on my desk)

@wilrogan.bsky.social's 'Purity in the Gospel of John' is now in paperback!

Learn how the Fourth Gospel adapts biblical and early Jewish traditions of purity related to divine revelation and Israel’s restoration to its Christology, soteriology, and ethics.

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Purity in the Gospel of John Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early…

My book PURITY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN came out in paperback today.

I think it’s worth a read if you’re interested in John’s Gospel or the early Jewish context from which it arose.

www.bloomsbury.com/us/purity-in...

love mingus, an all-time great

Not a cure, unfortunately, but a good cumulative argument against despair

A nice, tiny review of my book Purity in the Gospel of John by Chris Seglenieks.

The book is coming out as a paperback the day after Christmas.

grateful you gave it your attention, Chris. thank you, and thanks for posting about it here!

I remember accidentally scandalizing congregants with the suggestion that it is ideal to live, work, and go to church in the same place.

I also remember the faddish thing in the 2010s about social media and isolation. But *social* media was a response to the lonely world TV and automobiles made.

Congratulations. I learned a lot from THE SYMPATHIZER, and I thought the mini-series was a masterful adaptation.

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

eager to read this

Ah, i read this a few months back and was also helped by it: www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity...

Instead of assessing democracy as good or bad he talks about the varying estimations of democracy among christians at different points. He also differentiates civil religion from religious nationalism.

Not quite the same, but have you seen Phillip Gorski’s AMERICAN BABYLON?

Christopraxis, or ?

My children’s favorite Bob Dylan song: the apocalyptic “Ring Them Bells”

This looks great. Thanks for putting it together.

I’m enjoying the poignant Advent reflections through visual exegesis in this book.

Thanks so much, Caio, for reading and engaging with me. Yes, there's good basis for your reading in 1 Cor 8. There's reason to think the weak and the knowledge-havers can be differentiated on socio-economic grounds.

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(my message being: the incarnation is not an emergency measure in response to the fall but rather the realization of god’s everlasting purpose; this isn’t to deny a redemptive dimension to christ’s work but it is to say his person and presence exceed redemption)

godspeed

Neither are clean animals, but I find the nativity I saw with the elephant less problematic than the one I saw with the pig.

Oh no, I’m sorry to hear that. I know he’s had health problems in the past. I will say a prayer for him.

Quick bio post: I'm mainly here to follow and find new (or new to me) scholars in biblical studies and adjacent fields. I'm an acquisitions editor for Baker Academic, acquiring mostly projects in HB/OT. (1/3)

Happy Thankless Thanksgiving - Christianity Today Paul hardly ever thanked anyone directly. What can his refrain “I thank God for you” teach us about gratitude?

I find Paul’s thanksgivings remarkable, and I wrote about why for Christianity Today.

Here’s a gift link if you’re inclined to read it:

www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/paul...