I saw this in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and thought it might make someone’s Christmas: Executive Director. The Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science seeks to hire a new Executive Director beginning in July 2010. Exceptional leader with broad intellectual interests and organizational talents. Ph.D. or equivalent training. Send curriculum vitae, a letter of application, a writing sample, and three references to: [email protected] by March 15, 2010. For more information, go to http://www.metanexus.net/. Read more

Readers of this blog are hereby officially advised that I am renewing my previously-posted “Articles of Christmas” for the 2009 year, as follows: This post provides official notification of my intention, on or immediately prior to the 25th of December 2009, to wish readers of my blog a Merry Christmas. If you are likely to find such expression of Christmas greetings/wishes offensive, you are hereby asked to refrain from reading any and all posts on this blog which may have... Read more

I love Amazon gift cards. They are perfect gifts to send any time, but if more than one person sends you one, it multiplies the shopping possibilities (with the potential for a big gift rather than several little ones!). Even if you only remember that you should have sent someone a gift on Christmas day itself, you can still get it to them without it being late, since there is no need to send an actual card, just the code... Read more

One more in the category of Christmas and science fiction: Chris DeBurgh’s song “A Spaceman Came Travelling”: You can find the lyrics online in lots of places. Read more

That is, more or less, the name of this Romanian Christmas Carol: Read more

For those who like to combine Christmas, science fiction and nostalgia, how many of you remember the Star Wars Christmas album Christmas in the Stars? It featured that Christmas classic “What Do You Buy A Wookie For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)?” What I didn’t know until tonight is that that album was the first professional recording of John Bongiovi, more famous spelled as Jon Bon Jovi. The song with his vocals can be downloaded for free as... Read more

First, we have a clip from a Klingon version of A Christmas Carol: HT IO9 Then, there’s Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by John Williams, famous for his sci-fi scores: Then there is this great image of a flying collision from TheoFantastique: If you came here looking for something related to the New Testament, I won’t send you away empty-handed. Vridar has a post on another empty tomb story with interesting similarities to the more famous ones in the New Testament;... Read more

Peje Iesous shared a link to a huge collection of recorded lectures by scholars to be found at Text, Community and Mission. Jim West noted that the latest SBL Forum has been posted – it is great to see The Planet of the Apes featured again (if you want to know why, you’ll just have to go see) as well as to learn that there is yet another sort of Bible around – the Stock Car Racing edition. Read more

I’m working on my family’s annual Christmas letter. I’m sure this song I saw on the Jay Leno Show sums up well the sentiment of all who receive it: http://www.hulu.com/edp/http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehulu%2Ecom%2F/embed/TJm8IZOU_7IR1RnvKL_w7g Read more

Two posts have appeared recently in the biblioblogosphere relating to the viewpoint that Jesus was originally a mythical figure who was later historicized. First, John Loftus offers thoughts on Earl Doherty’s views. Then, even more recently, Diglotting offered a recap of Robert Price’s chapter on the subject in a recent book, as well as James Dunn’s response. The quotes from Jimmy really sum things up well, with his characteristic humor and insight. Read more