As the blog prepares to relocate, taking a look back is not only appropriate, but perhaps inevitable. It is striking that three of the four most popular blog posts at Exploring Our Matrix (at least since Blogger has been keeping track of stats) relate to movies or TV, while the other relates to annoyingly problematic Microsoft  technology. Here are links the most popular posts: The Ending of LOST ExplainedThe Vista Black Screen After Login Mystery…Solved!TRON Legacy and Isomorphic Algorithms: Not... Read more

I just saw a comment on Facebook from someone who said “fun dies” a lot. I soon realized that they meant “fundies” and that was being autocorrected to “fun dies.” There is something poignant, and something amusing, about the change. But mostly I’m posting this so that anyone who reads this blog and tends to use the term “fundies” knows to watch out for what autocorrect might do to the word. The other thing I learned in writing this post,... Read more

I received an e-mail recently about ARDA – the Association of Religion Data Archives – and thought I would share a link to the site, which looks like it has lots of interesting data (hence the name) collected from surveys about people’s religious beliefs and opinions. I also received an e-mail from Ben Griffith, who has begun blogging at the Huffington Post, asking if I’d share his latest post which is about Protestant appreciation of Church Fathers. Read more

Here are some quotes that give a sampling of posts about science and faith, evolution and religion, around the blogosphere: Arni Zachariassen writes: Ken Ham gives me hope. His numbers tell me that Christian colleges don’t work with the rigid binaries he works with. Which means that young Christians are introduced and inculcated with the theological wiggle room that’s both befitting for the faith and likely to save a number of commitments that might otherwise be lost. And cheers to... Read more

This month’s Biblical Studies Carnival will be at Unsettled Christianity. They are promising that it will be the best one ever. Submit your favorite posts! Read more

Joel Watts somehow guessed the news that I was slowly building up to share, and so I suppose it is time to let everyone know, even though more details will have to follow later. Exploring Our Matrix will be moving to Patheos soon! I’m honored to have been invited to join Scot McKnight, Ben Witherington and many other bloggers who currently blog there. As for what will change, the answer is only the address. I’ll still have the same weird... Read more

If you have been reading this blog lately, you’ll know that I have been blogging through Earl Doherty’s book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man – The Case for a Mythical Jesus. Apparently, if the supporters of its “conclusions” are to be believed, it is entirely my fault that I am finding the book unpersuasive. It is simply because I was already disinclined not to find its claims persuasive. My question is this: How good is a book if it can... Read more

I know that some bibliobloggers will be presenting papers at the International SBL Meeting in July in London, England, and perhaps an even greater number will be in attendance. Should we try to have lunch together one day? I think it would be a particularly good idea if there will be bibliobloggers there who don’t normally make it to the bibliobloggers’ get-togethers at the SBL Annual Meeting in the United States. Read more

After a prolonged absence from the biblioblogosphere, Michael Kok is back, with a new blog entitled Euangelion Kata Markon. It’s a catchy title, but it seems to me I’ve heard it somewhere before… 🙂 But seriously, particularly those who remember Mike’s old blog “The Golden Rule” should pay his new one a visit and welcome him back to blogging. He’s already posted on the Secret Gospel of Mark conference and on Markan priority. Read more

“How To Lie About Submitting Safe Assign” That search string brought someone to my blog, and I thought it deserved comment, since presumably the person who searched for it is a student trying to avoid having their plagiarism or cheating detected. It won’t work. If you say that SafeAssign didn’t work and e-mail the assignment to your professor, then your professor can manually upload it to SafeAssign. If you don’t send an electronic copy in the hope that you’ll make... Read more