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Shannon sees Walt again, once more dripping with water, and he speaks backwards. Sayid thinks she was dreaming. Shannon tries to get Vincent to lead her to Walt, but instead he takes her to Boone’s grave. Claire mentions the possibility that Charlie is a religious freak, and when Locke says he doubts that, Claire tells him that Charlie has a statue of the Virgin Mary. Michael asks why they have to keep quiet, and we learn that 12 of the... Read more
I saw this cartoon, and it seemed to me to offer parallels to the discoveries that are sometimes made in my own fields of religion and Biblical studies. Sometimes people go through a time of questioning which, because they have not yet jettisoned their immature black-or-white absolutist thinking, involves going from believing everything to believing nothing. But often, what we discover after a maturer and more critical inquiry is that there is something to whatever it was we once believed –... Read more
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This episode features a flashback in which Jin is talking with a friend who says he will find love this year, referring to the “destiny book,” a kind of source of astrological wisdom. Jin is skeptical, especially when the friend says that love will look “orange.” We see Sun with a man that matchmakers put her together with, but who eventually reveals he is actually planning to marry a woman in America. Eventually Jin is distracted by a woman in... Read more
The quote from N. T. Wright, as well as the accompanying picture, came to me via ProgressiveChristianity on Facebook. “The line between good and evil does not lie between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual. This is not to say that all humans, and all societies, are equally good or bad; far from... Read more
Several years ago, I shared a blog post which sought to rank the top three tiers of journals in New Testament studies. That list by Peter Head was as follows: PhD students often ask for advice on the top journals in the field. So here is the list, in three separate tiers, of the top eight journals in New Testament studies. This list uses three published ranking lists (the only three that I am aware of) and my own personal... Read more
I had a chance to interview Derek Flood recently about his new book, Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did. I had seen lots of interviews and blog posts about the book’s challenge for those with conservative views of the Bible, and wanted to find out how he saw its message for progressives and liberals. Here’s the interview – with my questions in bold, and Derek’s responses... Read more
The episode starts with a dream Hurley had in which he eats lots of food from the storeroom in the hatch, and Jin speaks to him in English while Hurley answers in Korean. Right after Hugo faints when the lottery numbers are announced, his mother talks about him needing to change his life. She says that maybe if he prays, Jesus will come down from heaven, take 200 pounds off his weight and give him a decent woman and a... Read more
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