From Evolving Perspectives. Have you found Jesus amidst the Waldos? I was tempted to call the post “Finding Jesus” but was afraid that readers might think it was about the CNN documentary series, which I still need to get caught up on watching… Read more
By Dave Walker Read more
The episode begins with a flashback of Emily Locke when she was young. She is hit by a car, while pregnant, at six months. John Locke is the youngest premature baby to survive in their hospital. Some have called him a miracle baby. They will give him up for adoption. Richard Alpert is looking through the window. Then when John is older, Richard goes to see him. John is playing Backgammon. Richard says he runs a school for special children.... Read more
Yuriy Stasyuk shared the image above on Facebook. It is poking fun at the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, since Numbers 12:3 says, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.” As Yuriy pointed out, “If Moses really wrote that he is the most humble, he would then be boasting about his humility – so in effect, not being humble, about being humble.” Someone then responded by offering the following... Read more
I’m delighted to be a participant in the Patheos Book Club about John Walton’s latest book, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate. If the title sounds familiar, it is because Walton has also written books with the titles The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (which I blogged through in detail back in 2009) and The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority. And... Read more
In this episode, near the beginning Jack collapses after advising that everyone be patient, since Dan and Charlotte’s people will come back for them. Juliette realize it is his appendix, so she sends people to get surgical equipment from the medical station. Rose wonders why Jack is sick, since on the island people get better. Bernard asks whether she thinks Jack has done something to “offend the gods.” The title of the episode comes from a phrase that Bernard uses,... Read more
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Simon Joseph has kindly blogged about Richard Carrier’s appearance at a regional SBL meeting. Here is an excerpt from towards the end of the post: The fact that an SBL regional meeting was hosting a review and discussion of Carrier’s book was intriguing. Richard Carrier is one of the few exceptions among those who doubt the existence of Jesus in that he is a Ph.D. in Ancient History. His book, published by a respected university press, marks a milestone in... Read more
This was a mind-bending episode the first time we saw it. The doctor from the fripeighter washes up dead on the beach with his throat slit. The phone rings in Locke’s house telling him code 14-J, an early warning meaning that someone from his people has been captured. And in a flash forward, Ben is lying on the ground in Tunisia, dressed in warm Dharma clothing. All at the beginning of the episode! Before we know it the compound is... Read more
IO9 recently shared pictures of futuristic churches, suggesting that even atheists might be able to not merely appreciate them, but be impressed if not even awestruck by them. Someone likened one of them to their mental image of the Shrike Church of the Final Atonement in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion novels. Click through to take a look at them, and then let me know which, if any, made an impression on you.   Read more
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