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This was originally posted on November 21st, 2021.

It was a lot of fun being back at an “in person” conference yesterday. (Though today, due to the sessions and meeting I’ve chosen to attend, I’m back home and online. It’s nice to live in San Antonio, so I can choose to drive downtown or just stay at my house!) I didn’t do anything during the official “day 1” on Friday but yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a couple of sessions and go to lunch with my friends and fellow Trinity College Bristol grads, Marc Groenbech-Dam and Erica Monge-Greer.

The morning session I attended was titled “Teaching Biblical Studies in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Context”. I listened to the first two papers which were both great. I plan on using what I learned from both Douglas B. Miller’s “Bible Simulation: Engaging Gen Z Students with the Text” and Cindy Dawson’s “Harry Potter and Janet Osteen Teach the Extrabiblical Gospels”.

The afternoon session I attended was titled “Intertextuality in the New Testament”. I enjoyed those presentations and I got to hear Marc’s paper “Intertextual Interplay in Matt 27:43–53: Exploring the Evocation of David’s Song (2 Sam 22:5–20) in Jesus’s Experience on the Cross.”

My great accomplishment was securing my book haul in one tour. Here’s a picture:

The past few days, I’ve shared the “Course Description” and the “Key Idea” for my class “The Hebrew Scriptures”. Today, I want to share the tentative class outline. Here it is (including some assignments: something I’ll discuss more at a later date):

I submitted a 6,000+ word conference paper to the editors of the journal Teaching Theology and Religion. They were interested in the practical exercise mentioned at the end of the paper, so they asked if I’d rework and resubmit that portion. The result is a 600+ word “Teaching Tactic”. I’m grateful to have had this published. I hope it inspires some teacher, somewhere. The article (entry?) can be accessed here: “Teaching digital discernment to emerging generations” as part of the digital version of Teaching Theology and Religion 23/4 (December 2020).

Last time I checked, Teaching Theology and Religion is open access though it does seem to be asking for more when I go to the website. Maybe it’s a hiccup or temporary.

If you’re interested in the theoretical material from my paper that the editors didn’t want, here is a redacted version that gives you everything except the exercise itself, which is what I signed over to the journal: