I saw the new Star Trek movie last night. It is fantastic. I can’t imagine (in spite of what some have been saying) that devoted fan of the original series will not love it. Star Trek had parallel universes and alternate time lines built into it all along, and so tinkering with the “canonical history” [...]

I wonder if the hiring of an actor to “play Jacob”, like the filming of multiple versions of the final scene from last season’s finale, is a ruse, and Jacob is in fact going to turn out to be someone we know well: Jack Shepherd. I wouldn’t bet money on it, not by a long [...]

Kathy Hanson has a guest post at the blog Dream Awakener on the question of whether the way we live, or the things we believe and say, ought to be paramount for Christians. Her post leads me to reflect on the fact that Jesus, for the most part, particularly in the earliest stories told about [...]

We’re off to see the Wizard…er, I mean Jacob…as LOST moves towards the end of its penultimate season [There are SPOILERS ahead if you have not yet seen the most recent episode to air in the US] Last night’s episode “Follow the Leader” saw John Locke leading “his people”, the Others, to go see Jacob, [...]

Well, we’re getting close to the end of the season, and some pretty remarkable plot developments are carrying us along. It has been said that the finale (to be broadcast next week) will be so game-changing that we’ll wonder how the show can continue after it. My guess is that Jack and Eloise and crew [...]

A while back I shared the first part of this video, showing why “flood geology” is bogus. Here’s part two, with more overwhelming scientific data coupled with enjoyable British sarcasm (HT AIG Busted): Open Parachute blogs about answering the big questions. 3quarksdaily has Philip Kitcher on religion after Darwin. See also Phil Plait on what’s [...]

Although there are all sorts of spiritual adventures that can involve blogging, I am referring here to Philip Clayton’s recent book Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008), a copy of which Tripp Fuller kindly provided me with as part of the Transforming Theology Theo-Blogger Consortium. In the book’s prologue, Clayton [...]