Julia M. OBrien

I've just encountered powerful curriculum on Joshua.  It's entitled Joshua:  A Journey of Faith and is the 2009-2010 Horizons Bible Study for Presbyterian women.

Even as booksellers and English teachers lament that Americans don't read, the phenomenon of the book club just keeps getting bigger.  Every month, book clubs gather in small town libraries, in independent book shops, and at almost every Barnes and Noble in the nation.  Oprah makes and breaks careers by picking her book club insiders.  The websites of major publishers pitch their wares to the book club crowd, sometimes targeting African American readers or evangelical Christians. A simple internet query for "book clubs" returns page after page of discussion questions (general and tailored to particular books) and guidelines for how to start a live or virtual book club of one's own.  Apparently there are a lot of people for whom reading and talking about reading matter.

I just learned about an on-line Bible study coordinated by Carolyn Sharp, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School.

Mark Goodacre, Associate Professor in the Religion Department at Duke University, has developed a New Testament podcast.  He describes it as "condensed content from an academic perspective for everyone interested in historical approaches to the New Testament.