From David DeSilva on YouTube. Read more
From David DeSilva on YouTube. Read more
The above charts come from the website The World in Data, and more specifically Max Roser’s piece, “A history of global living conditions in 5 charts.” I am sure you have all seen past attempts to represent the world as it is now if it were 100 people. But tracing that group over 2 centuries achieves something different, in my opinion. It really does put our moment in history in perspective, in a manner that has the potential to get us... Read more
The 2016 Doctor Who Christmas special opens with the Doctor being mistaken for Santa by a boy named Grant. When he introduces himself as the Doctor and Grant asks which one, and he says the original, Grant says that he ought to be called Doctor Mysterio, which the Doctor likes. The Doctor gives Grant a special gemstone to hold, and Grant mistakes it for medicine. The gemstone uses power from the nearest sun to turn wishes into reality, and since... Read more
Inherit the Mirth has produced so many fantastic comics. But this one, which I don’t recall ever seeing before, is just so perfect, on so many levels… Read more
One of a selection of Christmas comics that came my way via Bored Panda. …Merry Christmas! Or if you prefer something more generic/inclusive: Read more
Another woman composer that I omitted from my post on the subject was Ruth Watson Henderson. Her Cantate Domino is above, and below is Psalm 100. Read more
It can be so hard to find balance when it comes to anything having to do with the Bible. This seems particularly true when it comes to matters related to Christmas. On the one hand, there are those who are determined that the Bible be “right” no matter the cost. I have had someone telling me on Facebook that they had seen Roman tax records in a library which show that the genealogy in Luke’s Gospel is Mary’s. Ian Paul... Read more
It was less than two hours after watching the movie Arrival yesterday that I realized it had solved, for me, one form of the problem of evil. I can’t discuss this without spoilers, but even if you have yet to see the movie, it may be worth reading on, although I suspect that just as the underlying theological problem cannot be appropriately considered in a dispassionate manner, the emotional impact of this aspect of the film may also be crucial. Linguistics... Read more
The intersection of religion and science fiction would be enough to justify sharing the above. But it also raises useful questions about what is meant by “sacrifice” and also “resurrection.” Sacrifice in the sense of animals killed so that their blood can be poured out as an offering to a deity is something unimaginably foreign to most people in the English-speaking world today. And yet it was that – and not the modern sense of giving one’s life to save others –... Read more
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