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Monotheism Interview Series: First Installment with Nathan MacDonald
October 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
David Burnett has begun a series of interviews on the topic of monotheism and Biblical studies, over on his blog The Time Has Been Shortened. The first interviewee is Nathan MacDonald, whose work in this area I’m sure will be familiar to many readers. If this field interests you, why not click through and take [...]
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus: How to Ask Hard Questions
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is the third installment in my blog review of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus, which is part of the blog tour organized by the publisher. In my experience, students are less daunted by or opposed to the asking of really difficult questions when those questions are seen to be posed or raised by the [...]
Think Different
October 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Today in my “Faith, Doubt, and Reason” class we began our discussion of Don Quixote, and spent some time thinking about the nature of madness and how we determine or categorize people and their perception of reality. The story can serve quite easily as a parable of religious belief: a person who, as a result [...]
How To Solve Any Computer Problem
October 6, 2011 By 9 Comments
It has been a while since this has been circulated, and so I thought it about time to share it again…
Doctor Who: The Firemaker
October 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
This post is about the last two parts of the very first broadcast Doctor Who story, variously called in its entirety “An Unearthly Child,” “100,000 BC,” “The Tribe of Gum,” and a few other names besides. The fourth part, “The Firemaker,” is the one I’ve chosen to use in the title. In parts three and [...]
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