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Dear blog reading friends, I’m unwell at present and currently off work for a month on my doctor’s advice, so I won’t be posting during that time. I shall aim to resume normal service when I’m back at work. If you’re a person who prays, I’d greatly value your prayers. Thanks! Steve

My good friend Di Hakala has just started a blog which will be of interest to many of my readers. Di will be blogging at Di’s Tech Tips offering wisdom and ideas on many of the hidden features and corners of Microsoft Word and other techie things related to writing books and theses in Theology, Biblical Studies, Classics, History, etc. Her...

My friend Nijay Gupta has been getting a number of established biblical scholars (so far, all NT scholars) to answer questions about how they do research on his blog CruxSola. This is proving fascinating and helpful, and there are some interesting common threads. Here are links to the ones so far from Craig Blomberg, David deSilva, Jimmy Dunn, Mike Gorman and Mike...

Postgraduate Student Bursaries for CSSSB’s “Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today”, 4–5 December 2015 The Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, in cooperation with the Bible Society, invites applications for two bursaries, which will cover all expenses (travel, hotel, food, registration) for postgraduate students to attend the “Engaging with Poverty...

Here’s an interesting reflection by my colleague James Crossley on Jeremy Corbyn and the Bible—James was delighted when Corbyn used a biblical allusion in his first speech as Labour leader (did you spot it?), and here reflects on the place of the Bible in political discourse.