A colleague of mine, whose work on time travel has been reasonably successful, takes delight in sharing religious news from the future with me. Here is an op-ed piece from ten years from now that he brought back, which readers of this blog may find interesting: Our Lady Of Wisdom (November 6th, 2017) “History teaches [...]

In my Star Trek-related post I shared a link to a survey with Spock’s picture, since he was relevant to the post. But if you want to know who the survey identifies me as…

The Notes From Off Center blog shared this with anyone interested, and I’ve been curious about it for a while, so I thought I’d try it and do what was done there – infect yourself if you so choose! These are some keyword combinations that, when entered on Google’s search engine, produce my blog as [...]

I’ve just had my second major experience of giving an interview for a journalism student who, when the time came for an article to be written based on the interview, came up with a string of “quotations” (in quotation marks both because the student actually called them this, and because they don’t resemble anything I [...]

To get a sense of just how much has changed in the past half century, just watch these bloopers from the original Star Trek series. The part that made the biggest impression on me is the way Capt. Kirk and others keep walking into doors. The automatic door Star Trek led us to hope for [...]

How long can oral tradition preserve information? The available evidence shows that, while the idea of preserving a complete story, word for word, in all its details and in order over even relatively short periods is all but impossible without the aid of writing, small pieces of information and tradition certainly can be preserved. One [...]

I have posted before (twice, in fact) on the question of how Mark’s Gospel originally ended, but without really discussing in depth what I think or why I think it. I am persuaded that the original Gospel of Mark did not end abruptly in 16:8 (as our earliest evidence would suggest). The ending is awkward, [...]