The folks at IO9 mentioned how genuinely moving and emotional this reenactment of the beginnings of Doctor Who is. I agree. There are some truly powerful moments, and the entire story is one that Doctor Who fans will particularly love, but can be enjoyed by anyone. It is about the BBC's first female producer and first Indian-born director, and an aging actor who was appreciated for his past roles but now struggling to find work. The latter approaches the show... Read more
I confess that I accepted with some reluctance the invitation to participate in the Patheos Book Club about Robert Tracy McKenzie’s book The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History. It wasn’t that I thought it wouldn’t be interesting. I just wondered whether I could really afford the time to read a book about a subject so far removed from my research and teaching interests, when I have a backlog of books... Read more
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David Hayward shared the above cartoon. The title uses “deconstruction” in its popular rather than its technical sense. It is really about the application of Kübler-Ross' famous “five stages of grief” to the grief we experience when we realize that our conviction that we have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is in fact untrue. These reflections are appropriate for the day when Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. It is possible to move from trying to deny our... Read more
Jonathan Robinson wrote: “The fights over should be minimised so that the fights for can be maximised.” You can click through to read the context. Read more
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This moving gif was sent by the John Templeton Foundation in a Thanksgiving e-mail. I like that it can be understood in more than one way – as saying that “thanks leads to giving” twice, or as illustrating the cycle of gratitude, as giving thanks leading to giving thanks. Read more
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