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

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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9 August 2024

Handout for my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac aand Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’

I’m pleased to share the outline of my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’. I’ll be giving this during the British New Testament Society meeting in Glasgow, 22-24 August, and I’m making it available here as a Word file and here as a...

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22 June 2023

Writing to focus on your contribution

I’ve given a workshop on how to write your thesis so that you focus on your contribution to knowledge for our postgraduate research conference at Trinity College Bristol this week. Here are the slides from the workshop, which will give you a flavour of what I’ve talked about. One slide is a link to a Beatles’ song, so I’ve given...

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