Christmas season is in full gear at the Marti house -- finishing up my classes, the kids homework projects before the end of the year, community activities here in Davidson. In the midst of it all, I've been able to take Jason Byasee's invitation to...

I agreed to write a "review" of the new Mosaic Bible, a new formatting of the Protestant Scriptures published this Fall by Tyndale Publishers. The publisher provided me a deluxe, imitation leather version. Joining Tyndale's campaign afforded an...

Thanks to Jason Byassee, Executive Director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, a new post on their Call & Response blog describes my take on tradition and innovation in church life. In a post titled 'Our "Tradition" is Often a Previous Era's...

Here's a shout out for a session I organized for this weekend at SSSR in Denver, Colorado, on contemporary Evangelicalism in the US and abroad. Image by Andwar via Flickr Competition among sessions this year at SSSR is fierce! So many great...

Quick Post: I'm getting ready for another meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Although not everyone likes "scientific" in the name because not everyone accepts the loaded connotations of the word... Nevertheless, SSSR...