St. Paul, St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome. January 9, 2013. Photo by John W. Martens.

Tim Henderson’s Earliest Christianity blog has a notice that NT Wright will be webcast tomorrow at 11 am EST (10 am CST; 8 am PST) from Wycliffe College, Oxford discussing his new two volume book Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Since the book is 1 million pages long – oh, scratch that, 1,700 pages long – it might be worth listening to this podcast. The reality is, as someone who admires Wright’s scholarship and writing, it is always worth listening to him.  Wright has been admired across denominational guidlines, but has also come under fire recently in evangelical circles for challenging the Reformation reading of justification in Paul. (See my third entry on his book Justification here.) The direct link for the webcast is available by clicking on this link: NT Wright Webcast.

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John W. Martens is an associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn,where he teaches early Christianity and Judaism. He also directs the Master of Arts in Theology program at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity. He was born in Vancouver, B.C. into a Mennonite family that had decided to confront modernity in an urban setting. His post-secondary education began at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, came to an abrupt stop, then started again at Vancouver Community College, where his interest in Judaism and Christianity in the earliest centuries emerged. He then studied at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, and McMaster University, with stops at University of Haifa and University of Tubingen. His writing often explores the intersection of Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman culture and belief, such as in "let the little children come to me: Children and Childhood in Early Christianity" (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), but he is not beyond jumping into the intersection of modernity and ancient religion, as in "The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film and Television" (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Press, 2003). He blogs at  www.biblejunkies.com and at www.americamagazine.org for "The Good Word." You can follow him on Twitter @biblejunkies, where he would be excited to welcome you to his random and obscure interests, which range from the Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Timberwolves, to his dog, and 70s punk, pop and rock. When he can, he brings students to Greece, Turkey and Rome to explore the artifacts and landscape of the ancient world. He lives in St. Paul with his wife and has two sons. He is certain that the world will not end until the Vancouver Canucks have won the Stanley Cup, as evidence has emerged from the Revelation of John, 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra which all point in this direction.