We prepare to engage in the yearly ritual of scholars in our field: the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), abbreviated AAR-SBL…or is it SBL-AAR? The order makes all the difference. Quality tips are shared to survive an academic conference of this type. Brian shares the tale of his first panic attack, and leaks crucial details from one of his conference presentations—about the Puritan leader Cotton Mather and his belief that the bones of biblical giants had been uncovered in America.
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL): https://www.sbl-site.org/
The American Academy of Religion (AAR): https://aarweb.org/
The annual meeting online program book (you can search presentations by last name and keyword): https://sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=43
Cotton Mather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807896273/to-live-ancient-lives
Bryce Traister: https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/bryce-traister/
The text of Cotton Mather’s first letter to the Royal Society about the giant bones: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2936986?origin=crossref&seq=1
106 THE HIGHLIGHTER (on reading and erasing the Bible)
105 THE PAPERCLIPALYPSE (pre-existent AI spirituality and doom scenarios)
057 THE QISAPPOINTMENT (failed QAnon prophecies, prediction disappointment) [January 2021]
104 THE CALLMEMAYBE (Third Eagle of the Apocalypse rises with Carly Rae Jepson analysis)
032 THE CREATOR (Elizabeth Holmes gender smackdown) [August 2019]
103 THE INDIANA (...Jones, that is!!)
102 THE CONSULTANT (does Jesus look at you with compassion...or anger!)
101 THE DECAPITATED (the Wind tells me I'm a ghost; Tucker says Trump is “demonic”)
100 THE NATIONALISTS (Deuteronomy ch. 32, Moses sings, and Republicans want a Christian nation)
099 THE DOMINION (a new Christian dating site, and the Gospel Coalition sex article scandal)
098 THE BREAKFAST (Brian scores an exclusive and mysterious invitation)
097 THE REVIVAL (examining debate about the "revival" at Asbury University)
096 THE SUPERBOWL (wealthy people selling Jesus to Americans during a football game)
095 THE NEPHILIM (who are they, and why did they create the Federal Reserve?)
094 THE GIANT (conspiracies about long-dead giants on YouTube)
093 THE MIDTERMS (on voting as a religious act and who loves Israel most)
092 THE SKULLS (creepy but maybe comforting neolithic plastered skulls from Jericho)
PROGRAMMING NOTE (summer break)
091 THE MARDEVIL (reviving a soap opera’s weirdly religious moment)
090 THE PROFESSOR (the sage, the mentor, the crush, the villain)
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