Connect with other readers.

I hope the poems and stories you hear about on The Bible and Modern Literature podcast trigger your own thinking about the Bible, other literature, and your own experience. I’d like to hear about your ideas and reading experiences. Other readers want to hear your thoughts too. With each episode of the podcast, I post questions in a private Facebook community where we can chat about what we’ve heard and read. Please connect with us!

Online community

 Click here to connect with other readers in a Facebook community where readers can share their ideas and raise questions about specific Bible stories and characters, as well as modern poems and stories. I moderate this forum, posing discussion-starters and providing links to help the conversation along.

Read my articles

You can read my articles to check out how we read the Bible as Literature in a secular, diverse college classroom. Click here.

Read my forthcoming book

You can read The Bible for Atheists and Other Spiritual-but-not- Religious People when it comes out. It synthesizes everything I’ve learned in ten years of facilitating conversations about the Bible in an ideologically diverse reading community. Stay tuned for a publication date.

Send me a note

Whether you’ve grown up reading the Bible, have never read it, or have tried to read it but found yourself alienated or lost in its strangeness, I would love to hear about your reading experiences. Atheists, agnostics, and spiritual-but-not-religious people are especially welcome! Regardless of worldview, we all live in a world shaped by the Bible, the world's first and, arguably, most influential collection of literary classics.  I want to know what you think about it. Email me.