2017-01-20T10:41:43-05:00

Last updated on: January 20, 2017 at 10:41 am   By

This call for submissions includes elements such as Biblical interpretation among the topics that might be covered, and so for those who share my interest in Biblical studies, religion, and science fiction – but who perhaps have focused more broadly on Cameron’s films than I have – this should be of interest… A Critical Companion to James Cameron deadline for submissions: April 1, 2017 full name / name of organization: Dr. Antonio Sanna, Prof. Adam Barkman contact email: [email protected] A... Read more

2017-01-08T22:18:51-05:00

Last updated on: January 8, 2017 at 10:18 pm   By

The quote comes from my post “Remembering the Needs of the Many at Christmas.” Read more

2017-01-18T12:30:43-05:00

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Jonathan Bernier sums things up nicely: There is an unfortunate tendency in many circles to suppose that critical scholarship consists of pronouncing negative judgments on early Christians’ own self-understanding of their origins. I would suggest that this is a misunderstanding of what it means to be a critical historian. The critical historian is one who formulates a question, attends to the data relevant to answering that question, weighs possible answers, and then affirms that answer which handles the relevant data... Read more

2017-01-07T14:27:03-05:00

Last updated on: January 7, 2017 at 2:27 pm   By

One nice part of searching for all the Bible-related music I can find is coming across rare or neglected gems. I think you’ll get a kick out of this, which comes from Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon’s 2016 Purimspiel. Read more

2017-01-05T22:49:07-05:00

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Via Phil Plait, I became aware of this astronomically-inspired piece of music by Eric Whitacre. Enjoy! Read more

2017-01-16T10:23:43-05:00

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This appeared in the Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide yesterday: Read more

2017-01-05T22:50:00-05:00

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2017-01-15T08:17:48-05:00

Last updated on: January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am   By

Here is a call for papers that will be of interest to those interested in the intersection of religion and sci-fi: PKD Day 2017: Philip K. Dick and Vast Narrative The second PKD Day to be held at Birmingham City University, Saturday 22nd of April 2017 Unlike many writers of SF and fantasy literature, Philip K. Dick never synthesised his plots or characters into vast story-worlds. Apart from rare exceptions, his novels and short-stories are self-contained narratives. Despite this, many... Read more

2017-01-14T09:48:37-05:00

Last updated on: January 14, 2017 at 9:48 am   By

I had to take a photo of this announcement on our local TV station today. The “psychic” church apparently could not foresee either that they should not schedule events today when icy roads were predicted, nor that the conditions would end up being less severe than meteorologists anticipated. Self-proclaimed psychics once again fail to see what is coming even in the immediate future… Read more

2017-01-10T22:24:59-05:00

Last updated on: January 10, 2017 at 10:24 pm   By

I came across the meme above on Facebook. On the one hand, it does usefully highlight the willingness of many atheists to posit the seemingly miraculous, ironically precisely in an attempt to do away with the need to discuss any ideas of God or transcendence. But on the other hand, it is unclear how a miraculous divine creation of the cosmos is any less a “virginal conception” thereof. Indeed, for Luke, it is quite possible that the infancy story he... Read more

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