Enjoy this video from The Onion. It was too relevant to themes on this blog not to share it. Apologies for the rude language in the final seconds! http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swf?videoid=17491&embedded=true&host=http://www.theonion.comChristian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming Read more
Today I did an interview with MTV news about the LOST finale and in particular some of the religious ideas and imagery connected with the “flash sideways universe.” The result is the article by Eric Ditzian, “‘Lost’ Finale: Experts Talk Impact Of Religion On The Island.” If you read it, let me know what you think of this “mash up” of religion experts commenting on LOST’s own religious mash-up! Read more
Via a Romanian blog I came across via Academia.edu, I discovered another source of online music: Trilulilu. Here are some pieces by Romania’s best-known composer, George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1http://embed.trilulilu.ro/audio/hrista19aida/2a2dbbe14f7ce0.swf Romanian Rhapsody No.2http://embed.trilulilu.ro/audio/hrista19aida/40b37070a5bb88.swf Poema Romanahttp://embed.trilulilu.ro/audio/daryus30/4edc4e90d0e126.swf Ballade for Violinhttp://embed.trilulilu.ro/audio/oceanflower1/f6fd820b117e27.swfAsculta mai multe audio Muzica Unfortunately details about the performers are often not provided. Read more
The latest installment in the Doctor Who Media Club series has been posted at Religion Dispatches with contributions by Gabriel McKee and myself. Read more
In this post I will begin the process of putting into words my reflections about LOST, and will mention and discuss the details of the finale. And so if you have yet to see the finale, and are trying to avoid SPOILERS, then you should probably bookmark this post and come back later. It is hard to know whether it is a spoiler to say that everyone dies…eventually. Many are saying that the story is more satisfying emotionally than intellectually.... Read more
People on the West coast of the United States have yet to see the finale, never mind people in other parts of the world. And so I’m not going to say anything about the finale just yet. Plus it requires some reflection and digesting. So the post is spoiler free, but feel free to talk about the finale and the series as a whole in the comments if you are so inclined. Read more
At long last I am able to share the talk I gave at the ceremony at which I was installed as the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair of New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. The talk had to be broken up into three separate videos because of YouTube’s restriction on the maximum length. Here’s the link to the three as a single playlist. Read more
DocArtz has predictions about how LOST will end while religion professor S. Brent Plate explains what the LOST finale is really about. And on the humorous side, Nik at Nite shared this video with unnecessarily censored dialogue: If nothing else, that video illustrates the importance of openness, transparency and honesty. Our imagination has a tendency to fill in blanks (or beeps) with things that are worse than the reality. 🙂 Read more
Journalist Duane Dudek quotes me in two articles he wrote about LOST: “To the end, fans lost in TV’s ‘Lost'” and “Lost Theories Revealed.” Also on the topic of LOST, Nik at Nite has a recap of Damon and Carlton live. Jacob touched Jimmy Kimmel when he was in high school: Michael Emerson makes everything ominous: Movie Trailers – Movies Blog And here is a sports perspective on LOST: Read more
“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” — Jacob, commenting on “The End“, the final episode of LOST Read more
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