Today’s e-mail from Wolfgang’s Vault had an interesting piece of LOST trivia. The fictional band from the show, Geronimo Jackson, had a song that was adapted from one by the non-fictional band The Donkeys. You can read more about it and listen to the song on the Wolfgang’s Vault web site. I wonder if there is a connection with the “donkey wheel”… http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/common/swf/wgv_st_player.swf Read more
Faith and Theology blog has created witty short four-line poems about major theologians. Here are just two examples: Rudolf BultmannOne day beganTo study the Gospel of John; and found, to his satisfaction,That pretty much every word was redaction. Karl BarthHad to hire a cartHaving no other tacticsTo transport his dogmatics. Read more
The third installment of the Doctor Who Media Club at Religion Dispatches has appeared. This time it is focused on the episode “Vampires of Venice” and on theme of magic vs. science. Read more
Having said that there are ways in which the finale was satisfying, there are certainly many loose ends. But perhaps, as with comparable shows like the X-Files, we are supposed to continue exploring them rather than expect the series to resolve everything for us. And so I’d like to invite fans of the show to mention mysteries, loose ends, and apparent contradictions that they wish had been sorted out – and others who think they’ve cracked those particular puzzles to... Read more
The conversation about Doctor Who and the Jesus tradition is spreading. Judy Redman, and Mark Goodacre are both involved on their respective blogs. The idea is to find a scenario in which people get to hear/see something once, as they might on TV, and then check recall in various scenarios: if they don’t discuss the episode, if they do discuss it and whether they do so frequently or infrequently, if they pass the information on to someone who missed the episode,... Read more
There is an obvious way that Doctor Who could be related to the Jesus tradition: we just need someone with a TARDIS to go back and record what Jesus said and did, which we can then compare with the later Gospels. Since that is not currently feasible, here’s plan B (which Judy Redman began to elaborate on her blog, based on a comment I left there). We can take a television show (LOST would work, too) and get people who are... Read more
On a recent episode of Chuck, Morgan Grimes said that “fear is the mind-killer” and the words seemed strangely familiar. Then I came across the quote that reminded me where I had heard them before. It is the a line from the Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear” in Frank Herber’s novel Dune: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and... Read more
InternetMonk shared this classic Mr. Bean episode, in which he goes to church and sings “All Creatures of Our God and King” – or at least the words that he and all the rest of us manage to remember. I doubt there is anyone in the world that has never seen it, but if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat. Enjoy! Read more
Jimmy Kimmel is still producing alternate endings to LOST. Here’s another one: Read more
I just had drawn to my attention a new book, Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans. It looks very promising, if this video trailer about the book is anything to go by… Read more
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