James F. McGrath (ReligionProf)

The Tabernacle and the Streets: Reserving the Eucharist and Feeding the Poor (The Peter Powell Lecture 2026) I recently had the honor of giving the inaugural Peter Powell lecture at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, known for its An...

The Tabernacle and the Streets: Reserving the Eucharist and Feeding the Poor (The Peter Powell Lecture 2026) abmcg.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Sermon: Birds of the air and lilies of the field I believe that God sends us angels, messengers of love, if our eyes are open to them. I have heard from members of this congregation of the times when they have needed to be reminded of the power o…

Sermon: Birds of the air and lilies of the field revdocgeek.com/2026/03/06/s...

Newsbites: House of David! The Flood! David: King of Israel! House of David is the face of Amazon's new push into AI; Kevin Sorbo's Noah movie gets a new trailer; and Fox Nation's David docuseries gets a release date.

Newsbites: House of David! The Flood! David: King of Israel! petertchattaway.substack.com/p/newsbites-...

Lenten music: deafness, hearing and listening - Music for Mass Lenten music: deafness, hearing and listening. We hear about Jesus's healings in Galilee in our Lenten readings

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Beyond Grammar Checking: Building AI Literacy for Multilingual Academic Writers Article Series - Part 1

Beyond Grammar Checking: Building AI Literacy for Multilingual Academic Writers lilianmina.substack.com/p/beyond-gra...

AI reduces skill learning When a technology offers advantages and disadvantages, the decision-making process can be quite complicated, especially when oversight cannot be guaranteed. For example, many states now ban cell ph…

AI reduces skill learning learningaloud.com/blog/2026/02...

Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star The collision likely resembles the one that formed the Moon around 4.5 billion years ago.

Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star gizmodo.com/astronomers-...

Page H. Kelley (1924–1997) Today, March 13, marks the anniversary of the death of Page H. Kelley, one of the most distinguished Old Testament scholars and educators produced by the Southern Baptist tradition. He died on Marc…

Page H. Kelley (1924–1997) claudemariottini.com/2026/03/13/p...

GOP Rep: Scripture Doesn't Call For Social Justice - Joe.My.God. “You often see Matthew 25 thrown about, never in context. Sometimes it seems to be the only half scripture the left would seem to know and they use it to justify all kinds of spending. “I thought it…

No one works as hard to avoid admitting what scripture says as so-called "Bible-believing Christians"

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Using Bigotry to Hide an Authoritarian, Christian Nationalist Agenda Republicans invent an Islamophobic threat while undermining the Constitution.

Using Bigotry to Hide an Authoritarian, Christian Nationalist Agenda | The Nation

Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) Laury Sarti     The Medieval Mediterranean , Volume: 145 Thi...

Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/medi...

MPT Presents | Teilhard: Visionary Scientist Film about French priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was exiled for his beliefs.

Documentary about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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My book is published in the US today, and I'm shortlisted for the Unwin Award Three things for today.

Clearing the Air

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Progressive reflections on the lectionary #102 Matthew 17: 1-9

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VIDEO: The Voyage of Charles Darwin (BBC, 1978) The 1978 drama miniseries from the BBC, The Voyage of Charles Darwin (7 episodes), which has somehow escaped release on DVD, is viewable on YouTube (playlist here): Five years later, there was a BB…

VIDEO: The Voyage of Charles Darwin (BBC, 1978) thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/v...

Remembering as Repentance In his 2022 article, “Contested Memorials and the Discipleship of Christian Memory,” James Crockford writes that “memory is a vital theological theme. Whether in the Deuteronomist’s …

Remembering as Repentance womenintheology.org/2026/02/14/r...

Unlocking Vocation through Community-Engaged Learning The post introduces community-engaged learning (CEL) as a powerful method for vocational exploration, emphasizing its role in developing students' social responsibility and career readiness. By facilitating...

Unlocking Vocation through Community-Engaged Learning vocationmatters.org/2026/02/10/u...

Rewriting History I went through grade school, high school, college and law school without ever hearing about the Tulsa riots or the Trail of Tears, among other negative episodes. My experience was not unique. It is…

Rewriting History sheilakennedy.net/2026/03/rewr...

AI Can Seem Like Magic. Here's How The Illusion Is Done. AI can seem like magic. Once you understand how the trick is done, you won't be fooled by the illusion ever again.

The Wonderful Wizarding World of Artificial Intelligence www.patheos.com/blogs/religi...

The Well at the Center of Everything A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent, Year A

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The First AI War Donald Trump will go down in history as the president who made AI a weapon of war.

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Could a Day Job be the Foundation of an Artist’s Success? - 3 Quarks Daily by Herbert Lui

Could a Day Job be the Foundation of an Artist’s Success? 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Why I don’t like the label “progressive Christianity” I’ve come to approach it with suspicion—for pastoral, political, and theological...

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Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit “The people are in despair.” That’s all my friend said when he returned from Bethlehem. The words were few, but they were heavy. They fell like a stone in my chest. My heart hit the floor.

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit redletterchristians.org/2026/03/05/b...

Commentary on Mark 9:33-50 Notes (NET Translation) 33 Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” After the second passion prediction (9:30-…

Commentary on Mark 9:33-50 biblicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/c...

The Afterlife Isn’t Going Away Souls, heaven, hell, and the persistence of religious belief

The Afterlife Isn’t Going Away www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-afterl...

The Jerusalem Statement: Part 2 Creeds and Confessions

The Jerusalem Statement: Part 2 michaelfbird.substack.com/p/the-jerusa...

Evangelical Debates The Interstices: A 19th Century Intervention Before jumping into this piece, I want to make an acknowledgement. First, Professor Sutton has a new and well-regarded book expanding his argument from Neither Sutton's political redefinition nor the…

"The true sign of life in a tradition is not agreement but conflict. Evangelicalism isn’t an identity. It’s an argument."

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He is Not Worth This, America. America, he is not worth this. This unrelenting chaos that we find ourselves emotionally drowning in: the manufactured emergencies, fabricated culture wars, and conjured crises that hound us from the…

He is Not Worth This, America. johnpavlovitz.com/2026/03/02/h...

Two More Missing Episodes of 'Doctor Who' Have Finally Been Found Restored versions of the recovered first and third episodes of the iconic serial 'The Daleks' Master Plan' will stream on BBC's iPlayer platform next month.

Whether your hope is for the discovery of lost Doctor Who episodes or lost ancient manuscripts, there are more out there to be found...

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