The last two episodes of Heroes (which are the last episodes until January) have been full of religious terminology and symbolism. Last week we had some discussion of the soul and evil. This week, we watched Sylar get crucified and Peter encouraged to “fight the good fight” while still others discussed a “promised land.” I suspect that much of this is simply there for no particular reason and will never be explored. Yet if there is one thing that is... Read more

Biblical Studies Carnival 48 has been posted at Clayboy! Read more

The Biblioblog Top 50 for this past month has been posted. Read more

Given my work in Biblical studies, my interest in religion and science, my taste in music and my sense of humor, you may not be surprised that I think that I may have found my all-time favorite “apologist”: Let me know what you think… Read more

The following Spanish-language commercial for the 6th and final season of LOST brings God explicitly into the picture in interesting ways (HT both IO9 and DocArtz): It is intriguing to see chess imagery predominate when the defining game thus far has been backgammon. Then again, both allow for the imagery of white and black, light and darkness to be highlighted. Read more

IO9 is getting into the festive mood with a selection of sci-fi supplemented nativity sets. Here’s a sample. Read more

Mike Bird today drew attention to my book The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context in the context over scholarly discussions of the development of early Christology. He says he’ll leave it to others to examine my points, so please do pay his blog a visit and examine away! Read more

I thought I’d share two photos of me from this year’s Society of Biblical Literature conference in New Orleans, and solicit captions. The winners will be rewarded by having their captions added to the photos as the “official” captions, recognized as the winners, as well as receiving the deep sense of satisfaction that always accompanies such achievements. The second of the photos appears to have been touched up ever so slighly; the first is offered in its raw, pristine original... Read more

No, I didn’t miss my own wedding anniversary – if I had, I wouldn’t have been spending so much time blogging! But because I was away at the SBL conference, I missed blogging about the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species (published November 24th, 1859). Let me try to make up for it by sharing one quote and a bunch of links sent by the NCSE in conjunction with this important occasion. The... Read more

[From Helen Ingram’s other blog, The Geek Muse, which, if I had already been aware of it, might have guided me in the interpretation of her other blog, The Omega Course]. Read more