ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

16 October 2025

Who(se) Acts? Slides about God in Acts

I had the privilege and fun of teaching on Acts with Tom Wright for clergy and lay ministers from the diocese of Oxford today (16 October). My talk focused on the portrayal of God in the book of Acts, and here are the slides. Comments and questions are most welcome! And thanks to my friend Greg Downes for the photo...

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24 September 2025

The language and value of Acts—a podcast

Just released today (24 Sept 2025), Daniel Mikkelsen has kindly hosted me on his podcast (video available) Exploring the Language of Scripture to talk about the book of Acts. We discuss how I got into biblical languages, examples related to the language of Acts, and also some of the issues I talked about in my Tyndale New Testament lecture on...

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24 August 2025

Psalm 2: slides

I had the privilege of preaching on Psalm 2 at St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church in Cambridge (above) today (24 August), where my friend and former student Simon Cragg is pastor. Here are the slides from my talk, which began by reading the psalm in the context of ancient Israel, and then looked at how the psalm is fulfilled in...

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30 June 2025

Slides on ‘Acts and the Eyewitnesses’

I had the privilege of giving the 2025 Tyndale New Testament lecture on 30 June, on ‘Acts and the Eyewitnesses’—yes, the title is a deliberate imitation of Richard Bauckham’s justly well-known book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Here are the slides. The lecture examines the book of Acts for what it has to say about eyewitness testimony, both to Jesus and...

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5 June 2025

Leadership and power in Acts—slides

I have given a paper on ‘Leadership and power in the book of Acts’ at a very interesting symposium on leadership and power at the Catholic University of Leuven, organised by Armin Kummer and Veronika Burz-Tropper. They brought together a group of thinkers who work in methods, and Old and New Testament studies for three days to discuss this theme,...

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30 May 2025

Acts and the Roman empire—slides

I’m giving a paper at a conference on ‘The Church in an Age of Political Power’ in Colorado Springs. My paper is ‘Acts and the Roman Empire: An analysis in conversation with 1 Kings 18 and Daniel’. That may sound like an unusual combination. I am arguing that there are common themes (as well as differences, of course) in the...

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