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

4 December 2025

Scripture’s role in a move of God

I’m leading a seminar on this topic for our fab students from Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge at their houseparty this weekend (5–7 December 2025). Here are the slides—comments and questions are most welcome!

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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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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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