In part one of the three-part season finale, we see flashbacks of conflict between Walt and Michael when they were in a hotel, before getting on the Oceanic flight. Walt wakes up and sees Danielle coming into the camp. He wakes everyone up. Danielle warns them that the “others” are coming. She tells the story of her team of six that were marooned on the island. Then she talks of seeing a pillar of black smoke six kilometers inland, and... Read more
In an interesting convergence, I was asked to review the book Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels on my blog, and not long afterwards, I learned that one of its editors and contributors, Cathleen Falsani, is now blogging at Patheos. It thus seemed doubly appropriate to blog about the book, and I jumped at the opportunity to actually offer an interview with one of the editors. And so below is... Read more
This last episode before the three-part season finale starts with a flashback of a blond woman changing her license plate, using a large stash of them that she has in her trunk, and then taking a shower, rinsing dye from her hair. We discover it is Kate, and that she has used other names. We see her crying after getting a letter, and then on the island, with the toy plane, which we later learn belonged to Tom Brennan, which... Read more
Lots of people have been sharing the “news” headlines that a Syriac text allegedly reveals that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children with her. The fact that the book these news articles are designed to promote mentions “decoding” an ancient text is the first sign that this is dubious. That the “decoding” will be carried out on a text that has been known for centuries should make you even more suspicious. The book in question is The Lost Gospel: Decoding... Read more
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The season finale of Peter Capaldi’s first season as the Doctor certainly packed a punch time and time again. From the opening scene when Clara tells a Cyberman that she is the Doctor, stalling for time, to the moment when Santa Claus arrives as a deus ex machina with the hope that, for Christmas, perhaps we’ll get some resolution to certain loose ends, it was a wild ride of the sort that we’ve come to expect from Doctor Who. Some... Read more
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Eric Reitan wrote the following in a recent post: Here, in a nutshell, is the idea behind a progressive understanding of divine revelation and human religion: God is imperfectly encountered in experience, filtered through the assumptions and prejudices and conceptual categories that we bring to our experience–our worldview, if you will. But experience also transforms our worldview. When a square peg is forced to go through a round hole, the hole may not be the same afterwards. And the more... Read more
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