Tom Bolin shared a link on Facebook to a Tumblr page with this observation: DISCOVERY: that the addition of “Harry” to almost any Plato quote makes it seem legitimately like a nugget of wisdom out of the mouth of Albus Dumbledore. “Death is not the worst that can happen to men, Harry.” “Harry, good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” “He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it, Harry.”... Read more
If you don’t buy Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who, the Daleks win! And the good news is that despite the Daleks’ best efforts, the book is now available for purchase on Amazon.com! Also, don’t forget the synchroblog on religion and Doctor Who tomorrow, to coincide with the day conference on religion and Doctor Who at the University of Manchester. Please participate, and please spread the word! And if you blog about religion and Doctor Who... Read more
Brian Davidson has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, with a round up of highlights in this past month’s Biblical studies blogging. This month’s Septuagint Soiree has also been posted, as has this month’s Hebrews carnival. Read more
Thanks to Sabio Lantz for the image above. This is in keeping with the explicit teaching of the Bible, in Leviticus 19:33, which says “When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.” Read more
For some reason, coming across an echo of George Orwell’s 1984, I found myself thinking about how it is paralleled in the revisionist history that has claimed that religion and science have always been at war. Read more
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Today was the first time that my class on religion and science fiction has met on Halloween, and so I dressed appropriately, and encouraged students to do the same. Few rose to the challenge, as you can see in the photo (the student on the right explained that she was dressed as a muggle). I had planned from before the semester began to talk about Star Trek fandom as quasi-religious phenomenon on this day, and so the readings related to... Read more
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Darton, Longman, and Todd now has the book Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who available for purchase. You can order it through the publisher’s website. Amazon.co.uk is in the process of stocking or restocking the book. Amazon in the United States will be stocking it through Wipf and Stock who are going to be the United States distributor. And so it may be a little while longer until you can get it directly from Amazon.com. If you find... Read more
We’ve started talking about prayer in my Sunday school class. Many Christians use the phrase “prayer changes things.” And some people at my church certainly would. But some in the class last Sunday also had qualms. There is a long history of Christians thinking that God will always do what is best, and so asking God to do something else makes no sense – and even if God listened, it would result in something less optimal! There are also those... Read more
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