Unless you’ve seen this compilation before, I am pretty sure you’ve never seen baptisms like the one at the middle and at the end of this video! Read more
Unless you’ve seen this compilation before, I am pretty sure you’ve never seen baptisms like the one at the middle and at the end of this video! Read more
I hope the above diagram by Rachel Held Evans helps more people find clarity about this subject! Read more
Mark Goodacre recently blogged about the collision of two worlds that some religion scholars inhabit: the world of AAR and/or SBL membership, and the world of Doctor Who fandom. His post starts beautifully: There will be lots of doctors walking around in tweedy jackets this weekend in Baltimore but sadly, most of them will be obsessing about their papers at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting this weekend and not about the matter of real interest to the rest... Read more
I happened across another iteration of the design argument in its modern-day form, the essence of which can be boiled down to the following: All machines we know of are made by minds; DNA is like a machine; Therefore DNA was intelligently designed. The person who made the argument said they thought this worked with 100% certainty! Why do I not find this logic sound? Because one could even more easily argue the following: All minds we know of with... Read more
Benjamin Corey shared the above image. It is obviously a spoof (just look at the price). But it works to poke fun at notions of power and divinity that people hold. Star Trek V asked “What does God need with a starship?” Now you can add the question “What does God need with a Kalashnikov AK-47?” But think too that one could also ask what need God has of storms and lightning bolts. Most people who claim to believe in... Read more
I missed this when apparently it made news headlines back in September. The airport code for Helsinki is HEL, and there is a flight 666 that serves that destination, flying between there and Copenhagen. And so you really can take flight 666 to HEL! Read more
David Lamb recently posted his impressions of the first episode of the documentary series Bible Secrets Revealed, the second episode of which airs this evening. I appreciated David’s comments, but also found myself wondering about one point he made (which relates to a topic that came up here on this blog as well). He complained that Evangelical views were not adequately represented (Michael Kruger likewise complained about the documentary not presenting “both sides”). Since I know that Evangelicals were interviewed,... Read more
The Indianapolis Central Library has had Doctor Who displays up for most of this month, but I didn’t manage to get there to see them until today. And since I did, I thought I’d share pictures! I included one within the post and then a gallery – click on the thumbnails to see those full size. The knitted Fifth Doctor and Adipose with a Fourth Doctor scarf are among my favorites. Read more
The above is the latest prequel to the 50th anniversary special “The Day of the Doctor.” I’m not as impressed by it as I was by the last one. Read more
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