Jeremy has been proposing theme songs for various blogs and bloggers. Here’s his suggestion for mine: Do you agree? If not, can you propose a better one? Read more

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Science Catfight – Joe Bastardi vs. Brenda Ekwurzel www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Read more

Today we continued the topic of the Synoptic Problem in my class on the Bible. In addition to presenting the mainstream Q hypothesis, I also mentioned Mark Goodacre as a good source for an alternative view that questions the existence of Q, with plenty of helpful material online. However, I think it may be some time before Butler students are ready to embrace the views of someone at Duke…  Read more

Here are some links related to last night’s amazing episode of LOST: Nik at Night: Happily Ever AfterIO9: Fifteen Things We Learned in Last Night’s LostTV Overmind review of Happily Ever AfterPaul Levinson’s Infinite Regress: The Reunion of Two Realities Begins One more important connection to Fringe: parallel universes as relevant to the continued life of one’s son who died in one of the universes. Read more

It has been said that Anton Bruckner didn’t compose nine symphonies, he composed one symphony nine times. I wonder if we could say something similar about J. J. Abrams. His shows Fringe and LOST seem to have converged on key themes. Parallel universes, a small number of people who have crossed between them, deja vu as somehow connected to catching a glimpse of another universe, children who are special and relevant to a war that involves these parallel worlds which are similar and... Read more

Here are the latest humorous offerings in the series LOST: Untangled and LOST Slapdown: The LOST Slapdown #9 video will reveal a possible alternative ending to LOST which gave Damon and Carlton…paws. Read more

Like so many others, it is hard to feel anything other than pride for the Butler Bulldogs and what was an impressive end to an incredible season. One of the two teams in the championship was going to lose – we all knew that before the season even began. Butler went all the way to the championship, played their best, kept up the pressure on Duke so that there was never more than a handful of points difference between them, and if that final shot... Read more

I have found several of Keith Ward’s books helpful over the years, and so I was excited to notice today that he has a new one out, The Word of God: The Bible After Modern Scholarship. I hope to get a chance to read it in the not too distant future! Read more

In the near future I may be involved in working with one or two students interested in doing some Biblical Hebrew as an independent study. This would certainly not have the same format as a class with a significant number of students that met 2-3 times each week. And so I thought I’d see whether any readers who have taught or studied Hebrew recently have recommendations on books and perhaps other educational materials (such as CDs or software). I know a... Read more

Today’s reading in my religion and science fiction class was the story “Mortal Gods” by Orson Scott Card. I’m including the story below, for those who may never have read it. It raises a question relevant to this particular season. Is immortality desirable? Many religious traditions in our contemporary world focus on offering the promise of an afterlife in return for faith or behavior in the present. But one way in which we can helpfully allow sci-fi and religion to... Read more