B. G. White

I'm so excited to share that my book has released! It offers a fresh paradigm for interpreting 2 Corinthians. Title - Pain and Paradox in 2 Corinthians: The Transformative Function of Strength in Weakness More info - buff.ly/3yfnaq5 Thank you, @mohrsiebeck!

@baxterws I'm encouraged that @DashHouse still does these! Hope it goes well!

Looking forward to this event in #Toronto.

@AlexanderLDiaz Her book Paul on Humility is also excellent!

This has to be one of the best books I’ve read in a while. The author is clear, doesn’t exaggerate claims, and regularly incorporates primary data. Wonderful read!🙌🏽 I just hate it has endnotes☠️

This Easter confronts us with a painful truth: many Christians have turned away from the way of the cross. Instead of following the crucified Christ, they align with the empire that crucified him—seeking power and influence.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

W.H. Auden on Good Friday, an entry from his commonplace book, A CERTAIN WORLD: Just as we are all, potentially, in Adam when he fell, so we were all, potentially, in Jerusalem on that first Good Friday before there was an Easter, a Pentecost, a Christian, or a Church. It seems to me worthwhile asking ourselves who we should have been and what we should have been doing. None of us, I'm certain, will imagine himself as one of the Disciples, cowering in agony of spiritual despair and physical terror. Very few of us are big wheels enough to see ourselves as Pilate, or good churchmen enough to see ourselves as a member of the Sanhedrin. In my most optimistic mood I see myself as a Hellenized Jew from Alexandria visiting an intellectual friend. We are walking along, engaged in philosophical argument. Our path takes us past the base of Golgotha. Looking up, we see an all too familiar sight — three crosses surrounded by a jeering crowd. Frowning with prim distaste, I say, 'It's disgusting the way the mob enjoy such things. Why can't the authorities execute people humanely and in private by giving them hemlock to drink, as they did with Socrates?' Then, averting my eyes from the disagreeable spectacle, I resume our fascinating discussion about the True, the Good and the Beautiful.

The stripping of the altar on Maundy Thursday -- slow, methodical, and in darkness, follow by departure in silence -- has to be one of the most effective liturgical acts in the church year. I don't know how you could enter Good Friday in the right frame of mind without it.

We often remember Jesus's agony in Gethsemane as a prelude to the cross. But it is an event itself. Jesus experiences the most feared emotion in antiquity and adds a psychological dimension to his role as 'God with us'. For more, see my new article: doi.org/10.1163/156851…

Not true at all. What Postman argued was that we’ve replaced a culture of mass literacy with a culture of the screen, where everything is entertainment and the person who can grab the most attention will rule us. He warned that we would no longer have the capacity for deep reading or sustained reflection. Education and media would lower themselves to the level of the dumbest person. His words are truer now than they were then, and it all started with TV.

Please be aware that the Prayers to Be Used At Sea in the 1662 BCP may be modified judiciously for space exploration

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This week I am pondering the depth and intensity of Jesus's sorrow in Gethsemane and the overlooked psychological frame of the Immanuel motif. My latest article👇 Jesus’s ‘Sorrow’ (Matt. 26.37–8)? Exploring the Connotations of a Tabooed Emotion doi.org/10.1163/156851…

Out now 📖 Outlines the nature of 'democracy' in the Greek cities of the Roman East showing that writings of Paul and the development of Christianity reveal a strong, radical form of democracy that holds relevance even today. Learn more: bit.ly/40cFIbg

@wesleyhill Congrats, Wes! It's well deserved. I'm really happy for you and for Wycliffe!

I am so honored and humbled and just delighted to be able to share this news: wycliffecollege.ca/index.php/abou…

I'm very pleased to share my Easter reflection in the latest edition of The Christian Century! It focuses on the shock of the women who discover the empty tomb and how the resurrection re-shapes, well, everything. christiancentury.org/features/mark-…

If he's not careful this new Pope is going to make me Catholic.

“Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.” nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opi…

@JonRobinNZ @mohrsiebeck I did! It was nice to find you on here. From what I remember, you had a positive impression with some good questions too. Thanks for taking the time to review my work. It's being re-released in a revised and expanded edition later this year with a US-based publisher. More soon!

@bg__white @mohrsiebeck Hi there, thanks for the follow. did you ever see my /reviews in religion and theology/review of your book? if not I'll send it to you.

I'm so excited to share that my book has released! It offers a fresh paradigm for interpreting 2 Corinthians. Title - Pain and Paradox in 2 Corinthians: The Transformative Function of Strength in Weakness More info - buff.ly/3yfnaq5 Thank you, @mohrsiebeck!

This shouldn't change ANYTHING. Even if the numbers did hold up, the church in the UK and elsewhere needs to prepare for a smaller, nimbler, less influential future. The wider socio-cultural trends are not encouraging.

Very few people realize this, but the fight against artificial intelligence has been raging since biblical times.

This is a genuinely interesting story. Huge amount of automated work, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of human hours. BUT: with an error rate of 10%, and with the precise reading of *every* word mattering in such an exercise, it is meaningless, and for manuscripts of authority worse than useless, without a human checking every single word. BUT: there simply aren't people, in 2026, with the expertise, the time, and the funding to check these 32,000 manuscripts at this level. Welcome to Digital Humanities Slop.