Hi all. Here are a few channel announcements to keep you up-to-date!
1) New video drops next week about my thoughts on going inside the Dome of the Rock. Lots of new footage from my tour insi...
2019-01-18 18:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostFollow this link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO0IiuT6A-U
2019-01-12 19:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi $5+ community members! Mark your calendars. I'll be hosting a livestream at a slightly different time this weekend...hopefully it works better for those of you in different timezones.
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Hi everyone! Sorry for the slow production cycle...but here is our first 2019 video! It is a critique of one of the most common rhetorical arguments I see in discussions about religion...the No Tru...
2019-01-09 16:04:04 +0000 UTC View PostI can now announce a really cool partnership that has been in the works for a few months! Northeastern University houses a public religion think tank called Sacred Writes which trains scholars of r...
2019-01-04 14:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostCome say hi! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_J6Q0YwHg
2018-12-30 20:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostOk folks. I fixed my software. Sorry to everyone who tried to tune in this past week. I'm rescheduling our end-of-the-year stream for tomorrow afternoon (U.S. east coast time). The link will be pos...
2018-12-29 17:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostHi $5+ Patrons! I'm hosting an end-of-the-year livestream tomorrow at 7:00 PM (U.S. East Coast time). I'll post the link here.
If you can't make it tomorrow, no worries! I plan on hosti...
2018-12-26 21:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. The semester has FINALLY come to a close. This means that I get some of my time back and a huge decrease in stress. I've been teaching a class at Boston University, "Magic in the Ancient ...
2018-12-19 13:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. I'm not going to lie...this week was one of the busiest weeks of my academic life, and I'm barely keeping up with my work. I have 18 papers to grade, daily grind work to do for The Atlant...
2018-12-08 13:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXYNI7O-zU4
2018-11-30 00:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi $5+ patrons! I'll be streaming tonight, and I hope you can drop by to say hi! Things I'll be talking about.
1) My recent trip to Israel where I was interviewed by the US State Department
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2018-11-29 18:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I was recently interviewed on the Classical Ideas Podcast. Check it out here: 2018-11-28 14:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Academic Conference: I'm in Denver for the American Academy of Religion. I moderated a panel on public scholarship and religious studies yesterday, and Monday night I will be presenti...
2018-11-17 18:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostVideos: I've been hard at work on November videos. I've just finished recording a video on Shintoism's influence on Pokémon, due out for next week. The Sikhism video is slowly being ...
2018-11-09 23:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to start trying something new and post mini-newsletters on Fridays to keep you all up-to-date on what I am doing.
Videos:
I posted the History of Hell video on Wedne...
2018-11-02 13:42:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! A few weeks ago you voted on what 2018's Halloween Special should be. The History of Hell won. So here it is! A deep dive into 2nd Temple Period Jewish apocalyptic literature...
2018-10-31 15:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I'm friends with the academics behind the YouTube channel Alliterative, which focuses mostly on linguistics and etymology. Their Halloween special is on the etymology of the word "magic,"...
2018-10-29 15:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Just an update on my October. The History of Hell video is bearing completion! It has been a fascinating project from the start and I am excited to share it with you.
You also mig...
Random post. My school's newspaper interviewed me a few months ago, and the article has finally been published. Its short and a little cringey sometimes...but it was my first experience being intervie...
2018-10-11 22:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostA year ago, I filmed a video with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh on Sikhism. It has been sitting on my hard drive collecting dust because I was having a hell of a time trying to find b-roll footage and images ...
2018-10-10 02:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I head off to bed, I just wanted to give a shout out to all our new patrons who joined us from the Race to 50K Subscribers livestream. Thank you SO much for your support. Like I said on the str...
2018-09-26 03:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Tonight I'm hosting my first ever livestream for the ENTIRE channel. Oh boy, this is going to be interesting. If you will be available tonight, please stop by and say hi!: 2018-09-26 00:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Halloween is only a month away, and I happen to specialize in some pretty intense research (demons and magic). I was going to publish a video on the history of the theology of Hell...but then I starte...
2018-09-18 15:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone. Here is my latest video (published yesterday). I had a lot of fun writing and researching this episode. The research is at the center of so many disciplines (sociology, behavioral psychol...
2018-09-13 14:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the link!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qeBeoeWEQ
There is a 20-second delay, so apologies for my slo...
2018-09-03 00:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! The new semester is about to begin, and I am SO not ready for it. This semester I'm teaching 1 class at Boston University, "Magic in the Ancient World." I'm also designing online courses ...
2018-08-31 17:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostThese three religions are among the most requested topics in the comments. I have a very busy video schedule planned between now and December, so I don't have time to do all three of these this semest...
2018-08-10 13:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, here is my latest video...an overview of the Siege of Masada, a major event in Jewish history. I shot all of the video footage on my visit to the site back in March.
As an aside, ...
2018-08-08 18:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. As you all know, I generally post two videos per month. I've been rushing to finish the second video for July to be released today, and I just need to scrap it. The video's quality is &nb...
2018-07-31 20:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post