It is always worth considering that your theology might be wrong… Via Facebook Read more
It is always worth considering that your theology might be wrong… Via Facebook Read more
Today I learned of the existence of a history blog “Vintage Irvington.” It includes a couple of posts about, and pictures of postcards from, Butler College, which is what Butler University was called when it had its campus there in Irvington. Read more
Bob Cargill mentioned that the premiere of the documentary series “Bible Secrets Revealed” has been moved to Wednesday. He also provided this to tide you over until then: Read more
From Tyler Francke’s God of Evolution blog, where you will also find the top ten signs that you don’t understand evolution at all. Read more
I came across this on Pinterest and thought I would share it – and not only because it is firmly at the intersection between religion and science fiction. Spock was arguably the most openly religious character on the Enterprise – he had rituals and practices of a sort that no other crewmember was shown to have. Vulcan religion certainly seems to be non-theistic, and focuses on logic, but that simply illustrates that Zen Buddhism was the pattern on which it... Read more
Today there was a large sack, much like I would expect Santa to use, sitting in front of my door. But it was blue, and had “Royal Mail” written on it. It was several copies of the new book Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who which I co-edited with Andrew Crome. 366 pages chock full of wibbly wobbly timey wimey Whovian goodness. TARDIF has arrived! Read more
A cartoon from several years ago has been getting attention today. I shared it once before, but without the second part. And so here it is again, from the cartoon series “Home on the Strange“: “Who is your savior?” This actually connects up directly with the topic that we discussed in my class on religion and science fiction today. What makes a being worthy of worship? If it turned out that aliens created our universe, or parted the sea and... Read more
I had my attention drawn today to a blog post by Donald Miller, “My Problem with the Word ‘Biblical’.” In it he writes: And so this idea that the Bible presents a comprehensive guide for relationships that is Biblical is, in fact, not a Biblical idea. Nor is it “biblical” for us to use the Bible as a guide to understand science. Or psychology or finances or a guide for how to build a church. In fact, our desire to use the... Read more
Someone recently asked me about why Jesus’ death was understood by Christians as a resurrection rather than a “bodily translation to heaven” or something of the sort. It’s a fascinating question, and so I thought I would share some of my answer here. The reference in Jude to a Jewish tradition about Michael and the Devil disputing over Moses’ body is presumably relevant, as are Enoch and Elijah, in addition to the Testament of Job. In all these cases, there... Read more
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