If you get an e-mail that says something like the following, don’t fall for it. If you check, the link in fact takes you to a site in Thailand that poses as the IRS web site, but isn’t. Here’s the text: After the last annual calculations of your account activity we have determined thatyou are [...]

“The narrow, local kind of mythic explanation that sufficed when cultures rarely mixed will never work in the emerging global culture. We now need myths that are not only scientifically believable but allow us to participate – all of us. To experience the human meaning of modern scientific cosmology, and to turn it into a [...]

Bill Heroman has been posting on the possibility of Matthew having taken notes about things that Jesus said and did during his public ministry. Since I’ve been thinking quite a bit about orality and the Jesus tradition, I joined in the conversation. The subject of how common it was for notes to be taken by [...]

Last night I watched the first episode of season 4 of The 4400, a show that parallels Heroes in certain respects, but also involves time travel and other elements that are popular on LOST, Doctor Who and a number of other shows. The first episode of the season is entitled “The Wrath of Graham” and [...]

As we ponder the mysteries of LOST, one major question is how the series could end in a way that ties up the loose ends and resolves key questions, leaving fans satisfied. Here are three possible endings (one serious, two tongue in cheek): Ending 1: Turning the wheel the other way At the end of [...]

Mystical Seeker and is just one of many blogging about the recent statistics about doctors’ belief in miracles. Science and Religion Today is another. John Wilkins has been having fun with Christians and worldviews. Jason Rosenhouse is blogging about the Sixth International Conference on Creationism. Scientists may have replicated the evolution of RNA into DNA [...]

“Obama is not the Messiah, but he may cast out some demons in November“ (HT Revolution in Jesusland).