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		<title>The Cost of Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The last time my Sunday school class met, we had the opportunity to talk about the cost of welcome. We read the story of Jesus’ mother and brothers coming to see him, and Jesus saying that everyone who does the will of God is his mother and his sibling.   The Background Before we get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI Syllabus Statements You Can Steal for Your Course</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Generative AI Statements I am working on generative AI statements for this semester’s syllabi. I am a professor of religious studies, so my courses cover topics in my field. This semester I’m teaching “The Bible and Misinformation” and “The Historical Jesus.” I still expect the generative AI statements I share here will work (obviously with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Obsolete Paradigm of a Purely Mythical Jesus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mythicism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If one were permitted to give one’s short reviews in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament titles different from those of the volumes being reviewed, I would probably have chosen the title I am giving this blog post, “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Purely Mythical Jesus.” It’s a review of Richard Carrier’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Rachel Held Evans Still Reads Like a Prophet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Braving the Truth If you’re someone who read everything that Rachel Held Evans ever wrote, you may imagine that you don’t need to get hold of Braving the Truth. This latest posthumous publication is a collection of her writings on her blog, interspersed with several tributes from those who knew her. This book makes me remember [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two New Songs: Shine! and Come Spirit Come</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to share two new songs that I’ve written, both intended to be used as modern hymns for communal singing in churches: “Come Spirit Come” and “Shine!” The stories behind them are very different. “Come Spirit Come” was written rather deliberately after I was asked to learn a song that was unfamiliar to me, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>AGI Has Not Arrived, and No Tech Company Wants It To</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have made some bold statements here about artificial intelligence, and I hope this most recent one will not disappoint, when I say that AGI has not arrived, and no tech company wants it to. But James, you ask, how can you be so sure? I’ll tackle the two points in turn.   How We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking about Protocol Droids</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about protocol droids a lot lately. Why? It is not just because I am a Star Wars nerd. That would be a sufficient explanation for why I would be thinking about protocol droids, but not why I have been thinking about protocol droids as much and as often as I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Paul Knew About Jesus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul and his letters]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adam Gopnik recently published an article in the New Yorker about what Paul knew about Jesus and Paul’s influence. There was something else not long ago about Paul’s religion, playing it off against the teaching and religion of Jesus. It is about time I commented on this. Gopnik writes, “Paul turned the heresy of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Baptist&#8217;s Defense of the Muslim Call to Prayer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call to prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Attack on Religious Freedom in Indiana Indiana is the home of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and thus while we do not have an especially high concentration of Muslims in the state, Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s recent attack on religious freedom in Indiana is nonetheless troubling. To me as a scholar of religion, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Was the &#8220;Sinful Woman&#8221; in Luke Really a Prostitute?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F. McGrath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Gospel of Luke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Magdalene]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Sinful Woman When I wrote my book What Jesus Learned from Women, I thought long and hard about Luke’s story of a sinful woman (Luke 7:36-50). Ultimately, I did not find myself able (or at least willing) to decide between a couple of different options. Is the story something Luke created, taking the story of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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