For over a year now I’ve been thinking and saying my next book would be on the formation of the New Testament canon — how we got these 27 books and not others.  I definitely am going to write that book, but something else has come up that is going to occupy my time, brain, and research first.

My publisher, now that Love They Stranger is out, has asked me to consider writing a book about Jesus and capitalism (and socialism and marxism etc.).  At first I was hesitant.  I’m obviously not an economist.  And there are plenty of books like that (look them up online).  BUT, not so much by New Testament scholars approaching the issue the way I would.

So I’m gonna do it.

Books like this take shape over time.  I never know exactly where my research will take me or what I will turn up that is hugely interesting but that I never thought about much before.  (Did you ever see that old Daffy Duck cartoon

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