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"Performing the Problem of Suffering: The Book of Job and the Arts" wrapped up today, with a festival of student creative projects...

It's time for the final show of student projects in my course on the Book of Job and the Arts. As in years past, projects run the gamut ...

My course on Job and the Arts is almost done. Students are presenting final projects in the discussion sections this week, highlights from w...

My old friend and colleague C came to the "Job and the Arts" class yesterday to help us think about Shakespeare's King Lear - ...

Visited one of the discussion sections of "Book of Job and the Arts" today, where the discussion leader led into Blake's Illus...

I asked the students in my "Job and the Arts" class to come up with at least three answers commonly given to the question "wh...

In the Job class today I spent a fair - but not inordinate - amount of time enthusing about one element in the brilliant way Carol Newsom re...

As part of today's lecture on "Job and the Arts" I had students break out into groups of 3 and spend 10 minutes thinking about...

We're still on the approach in the Job course - the Book of Job is assigned for next (third) week. Today's assigned materials were t...

So I've had my first in-person class since we moved to zoom last March, and my first zoom class since we moved back to in-person this we...

As promised, some final projects from the Job and the Arts course.   Job's wife by Serina Clemente Untitled by Rhea Mehta ...

The academic year is rapidly coming to a close - next week is the last week of the semester! For the lecture course on the Book of Job and ...

Today is Wednesday of Holy Week when, for decades, the Church of the Holy Apostles used to offer a service called Tenebrae , "a servic...

A new book on Job came in the mail today, and what a book! Poet Diane Glancy's Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of J...

My lecture course on the Book of Job and the Arts transitioned online today, and I think we did alright. More than alright: our guest spe...

I had a guest speaker in the Job and the Arts class today, a Baptist preacher who occasionally preaches on Job. She insisted we start our...

One of the most exciting moments in my course on the Book of Job and the arts is when I invite students to add a speech to the text. The mo...

Meanwhile in the Job course, building on last week's riveting experience of hearing the words of Job, today I had students speak words ...

We had some powerful theater in the course on the Book of Job and the Arts today! As in the first iteration of the course, Bryan Doerries, ...

Speaking of the Spring 2020 iteration of "Performing the Problem of Suffering: The Book of Job and the Arts," here's the wor...