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November 2020

November 24, 2020
Star Trek fans will get the Kobayashi Maru reference immediately. Starfleet Academy prepared its cadets...
November 23, 2020
I remain indebted to Stephen Colbert for coming up with the concept of 'truthiness'. As...
November 22, 2020
I have focused a lot on the way the Star Wars franchise depicts the two...
November 21, 2020
Imagine you find the following page that has become detached from a book in your...
November 20, 2020
As someone very concerned about social justice and inclusivity, I am struck that the only...
November 19, 2020
There is a national discussion happening about whether the best way forward for the United...
November 18, 2020
I wrote a blog post in 2005, soon after seeing the final installment of the Star...
November 17, 2020
There's a new episode of the ReligionProf Podcast featuring theologian and fellow podcaster Tripp Fuller....
November 16, 2020
The conversation started with demons. Lots of people have had experiences such as sleep paralysis...
November 15, 2020
Jedi master Yoda famously said that "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate...
November 14, 2020
Biblical scholar Ekaputra Tupamahu has written an insightful article about whiteness in our field. I will...
November 13, 2020
I feel such a sense of deep dismay and disappointment as I scroll on Facebook...
November 12, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS  READY READER ONE: THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT, WITH, AND AROUND VIDEOGAMES...
November 11, 2020
There is a moment on the TV show Timeless, in the episode "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,"...
November 10, 2020
It is important to emphasize that there are a lot of different kinds of Christianity...
November 09, 2020
An interesting upcoming event to be held by the Institute for the Study of the...
November 08, 2020
Never in recent history have we had the instinctive communal outbursts of jubilation after an...
November 07, 2020
Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote that it makes no sense to hear the sound of fire...
November 06, 2020
The phrase "do your research" gets bandied about online a lot. For most people this...
November 05, 2020
  A Facebook friend shared the above meme which features this quotation:  “The best teachers...
November 04, 2020
All across the United States there are people who wonder how anyone could possibly support...
November 03, 2020
I hope that those who appreciate puns as much as I do will like the...
November 02, 2020
Halloween provides another example of what I have come to realize is a standard tactic...
November 01, 2020
The title of this post says it all: Fundamentalism is fundamentally unbiblical. Now, before you ask, I obviously...

October 2020

October 31, 2020
When I made my syllabus for my course on Religion and Science Fiction, I did...
October 30, 2020
I am long overdue to blog about the return of Star Trek: Discovery. I would...
October 29, 2020
A great many of my blog posts are born from the unexpected intersections and connections...
October 28, 2020
A Facebook friend shared this bit of news--and not because they thought this was a...
October 27, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS Modalities of Fantasy: Reconfiguring Time and Space Domain of the Fantastic is...
October 26, 2020
Valerie Estelle Frankel shared this via RelCFP: Hello, everyone. I’m editing a series with Rowman...
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