In-between teaching my classes, I had the opportunity to hear a couple of great papers: Laura Robinson’s “The ‘Myth of Persecution’ and the Portrayal of ‘Totalitarian Rome’ in Popular Christian Media” and Rebekah Carere’s “Trump as King Cyrus: Biblical Hermeneutics in the Trump Era”. Both were brilliant. They were part of the “Bible and Popular Culture” unit. Shortly, I’ll attend “Reading, Theory, and the Bible” where several of the titles were eye-catching.