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

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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8 February 2025

Three talks about discipleship

I was speaking today (Saturday 8 February) to the students and young adults of Emmanuel Church, Loughborough for their weekend, ‘Follow’, all about following Jesus. Here are the slides for the talks: 1 Discipleship according to Mark; 2 Wholeheartedness; 3 Whole life discipleship. Thoughts and comments are most welcome!

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20 November 2024

How do speakers in Acts preach from Scripture, and what can we learn from that?

Here is the handout for the paper I’m giving at the Institute for Biblical Research and Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology meeting in San Diego on Friday. The seminar is in the stream ‘Scripture and Church’, and is focused on what we can learn for our preaching from the way that the scriptural authors ‘preach’ Scripture. My paper looks...

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5 July 2022

My paper about the significance of the authorship of Acts

A little while ago I put up the slides from my talk at the excellent conference on the pastoral implications of pseudepigrapha and anonymity in the New Testament, sponsored by the International Reference Library for Biblical Research, and held at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, Texas. The organisers have now kindly made the video of my talk available (and...