Ken Ham has chosen to respond once again to some things I’ve written, this time offering my very brief description of how I came to a personal faith as “a warning to the contemporary church.” If the disdain with which Ham uses words like “experience” is anything to go by, he probably has never had a life-changing experience of being born again. But I’ll leave it to him to share his own experience, if he so chooses, and if he has one... Read more

This month’s Biblical Studies Carnival has been posted by Jonathan Robinson at his blog ξἐνος. Read more

I just learned from John Loftus that Ken Pulliam, whose blog Why I De-Converted From Evangelical Christianity many of you know, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He will be missed. Read more

I’m glad that Arni Zachariassen shared a link to the 100 best signs from the Rally to Restore Sanity. Some are excellent, and several relate to religion, science fiction, and other perennial themes on this blog. I think that my favorite, however, is one that was shared on the blog Young Anabaptist Radicals: Read more

David Ker is writing a novel. His aim is to (fictionally) kill off 30 bloggers in 30 days. I’m sure he’d value your input on creative and appropriate ways for your favorite bloggers to meet their demise. Let your imagination run wild! Read more

Bob Cargill shared a brilliant video, which unfortunately cannot be embedded. While you may have seen other versions of the same clip from the movie Downfall (with Bruno Ganz as Hitler) in which the subtitles have been changed, this particular version is about digital humanities, Critical Commons and open access scholarship. All those interested in these subjects will find the clip not only entertaining, but poignant, provocative and relevant as well. Read more

While poking around online for information on toponymics indicating a person’s homeland or place of origin, I happened across a reference to “the Gadarene Swine Fallacy.” A web site called Philosophical Society defines the fallacy as follows: “The GSF is the fallacy of supposing that because a group is in the right formation, it is necessarily on the right course; and conversely, of supposing that because an individual has strayed from the group and isn’t in formation, that he is off... Read more

HT to Matt Kelley for this video, a Monty Python/Star Wars mash-up that I think everyone will enjoy. Read more

The winner of the Dale Allison Constructing Jesus giveaway is…Mark Stevens. Congratulations! Read more

My friend Oliver Stegen has written a short story in which Exploring Our Matrix features prominently, as does the wider biblioblogosphere. Read more