Jeff Carter offered some Whovian versions of Christmas carol titles. I didn’t think I could do better, so I’ll just link to his list. And as usual, the BBC has some Doctor Who Christmas cards that you can download and print. I particularly like this one (notice the sign on the door): Read more
Valerie Tarico, despite saying that she defers to the consensus of experts, nonetheless offers five really bad reasons for thinking Jesus might not have existed. 1) She says that there are no secular sources about Jesus, neglecting to mention that the notion of secularism did not exist in that time, and that one would be hard pressed to find any source that completely disbelieved in all gods of every sort. 2) She points out that things like the virgin birth... Read more
This made me laugh: Of related interest, those who believe in getting back to the original form of the faith will want to look into the despecialized edition of the original trilogy. Read more
Lancaster Online published an article about “The Spirituality of Star Wars,” and also put together a collection of other interesting materials related to Star Wars. Jeremy Smith put together a list to help people prepare for watching The Force Awakens. But while there is plenty of room to talk in serious ways about spirituality and Star Wars, there are also problematic and frankly bizarre ways of doing so, too. What are you doing in what we might call this Star Wars... Read more
The person who shared this Christmas stamp from the UK suggested that it depicts Mary playing a Yamaha keyboard and Joseph with a microphone. What do you think? Read more
My attention was drawn to the plan to build a combined church/mosque/synagogue in Berlin, to be called the “House of One.” I suspect that it will not have a bar, given Muslim opposition to alcoholic beverages. But it’s a pity, because there is so much potential for them to use jokes about a priest, a rabbi, and an imam walking into a bar to promote the site. What do you make of this endeavor? Read more
From My Free Bingo Cards. Although I have not been teaching this semester, I can relate to these. Indeed, mankind has found them relatable since since time began, when Webster’s dictionary defined BINGO as…. Read more
Wipf and Stock has published a lot of great books, including some that I have been involved with. You know about Religion and Science Fiction and Religion and Doctor Who: Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith. But as Dustin Smith pointed out on his blog, they have also just released The Son of God: Three Views on the Identity of Jesus, to which I contributed the preface. In it an advocate for each of the three views represented in the book – Trinitarian, Arian, and... Read more
And as an example of how not to respond appropriately, there’s this ad which thinks that you don’t need to know a language or even its alphabet in order to wish someone a Happy Hanukkah… Read more
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