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

Jay (in a comment on a recent post) used the term “contextectomy” and I liked it so much that I wanted to share it with a wider audience. I am not sure if it is original to him (I have a vague sense that I may have heard it used before, but I may be thinking of a different “-ectomy”), but it really is a great word that says a lot succinctly. Lest I perform a “contextectomy” on the term... Read more

I’ve been asked more than once recently whether I think LOST will come to a satisfying conclusion. Below are my thoughts, more or less as I jotted them down in an e-mail yesterday to E! journalist Leslie Gornstein, who quotes me in her article “Can the Lost Finale Satisfy the Fans?” The TV show LOST still has the potential to satisfy fans – although as much may depend on what fans are hoping for as the story the writers tell. After... Read more

Do any readers know of reports or other publications which look at trends in the academic study of religion? I’m particularly interested in finding out if there are trends (whether upwards or downwards) in the number of students majoring or minoring in religion at universities without religious affiliation. Thanks in advance for your input! Read more

Here’s LOST Untangled: “What They Died For” http://a.abc.com/media/_global/swf/embed/2.6.3/SFP_Walt.swf And here’s the latest LOST Slapdown, featuring auditions for the part of the smoke monster. Read more

An alternate ending to LOST as revealed on Lopez Tonight: Read more

I have received from a reliable source a picture of what I believe really and truly is the final moment of LOST. If you do not like spoilers, do not read further. The picture below is likely to genuinely be the final frame ever of LOST, the real thing, the way the last episode of the series will end. And I am sure some may feel that the information it provides is something they simply do not want to know,... Read more

In response to threats and acts of violence by extremists, a movement has gotten underway which has led to a number of “draw Muhammad” events, and eventually the culminating “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” which has been designated as today, May 20th, 2010. I’ve chosen to show my support for this protest against religious violence, intolerance, and opposition to freedom. But I think more significant than any picture I might draw is this one (shared by Horace Jeffery Hodges): This is... Read more