Via IO9, here’s a Whovian version of “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Read more
Via IO9, here’s a Whovian version of “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Read more
On Facebook, Steve Caruso shared the above adaptation of an image that I had previously shared on this blog. Be a good human, if you are human. And if you aren't, you probably won't read the chart anyway. Read more
My post on mystics and atheists got a lot of attention. Dale Tuggy has responded (and the ending of his post inspired the title of this one). In response to his last question, I like Hans Küng’s way of putting it – that God ought to be thought of as “at least personal” rather than impersonal, but also as “more than personal” since God’s existence transcends the level of reality on which we experience personhood. In other words, we need to find... Read more
The folks at The Jesus Blog announced the good news that the exciting session on memory studies and the historical Jesus at SBL this year was recorded. Here they are: I am really sorry that more of the presenters and panelists did not follow Rafael’s lead in trying to reenact in reverse Da Vinci’s Last Supper. Given the topic, I would be very interested to hear from people who were there whether listening to it again confirmed or challenged their... Read more
Dave Walker's latest cartoon diagrams the pitfalls of the card-sending season. Does the sending of Christmas and other holiday cards still make sense, in our age of instantaneous digital communication? Is my asking that just an attempt to escape from the cycle Walker illustrates? Read more
Larry Hurtado blogged about the NYC premier of Robert Orlando’s movie A Polite Bribe, and Mark Goodacre mentioned that the movie will also be coming to his area. So what can I share? Not only that there are plans for the movie to be screened in Indianapolis on Tuesday, February 4th, but also that Orlando has written a song in connection with the movie, “Send Me Father”: Orlando also has a forthcoming book as well, about which there will be more... Read more
The blog Political Jesus shared this version of the modernized hymn “Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)” as an illustration of how widespread this particular meter – known for that very reason as “common meter” – is. While I think there may be some on the list given there that do not work, many do. What are some of your favorite examples of transfer of lyrics from one tune to another? Read more
The Doctor Who ending to the Grinch's tale, as depicted by artist Paul Hostetler Read more
I have no idea what this picture means. But I have the strange sense that it belongs on this blog. HT Judy Stack-Nelson on Facebook Read more
New Testament scholar Victor Paul Furnish wrote the following in the conclusion to his review of a volume featuring mythicist and minimalist scholars’ perspectives on Jesus: The mythicists, in particular, summarily dismiss prevailing views about Jesus and the Gospels as governed by religious interests; arbitrarily apply paradigms derived from the study of ancient Near Eastern literature and mythology to first-century Christianity; and mistakenly assume that the presence of mythic and legendary elements in the Gospel narratives makes them ipso facto worthless as... Read more
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