2020-09-11T09:54:25-04:00

Last updated on: September 11, 2020 at 9:54 am   By

TheoCon 2020 is ONLINE! Fandomental Workshop Session Details Thurs Sept 17 @ 7pm TheoCon Thursday w/ Church of the Geek “Anointing Fantasies: Swords, Spells, & Messiahs” Register at http://bit.ly/TheoConThursday Prophecies surrounding figures in fantasy are commonplace. How is the concept of being chosen and anointed illustrative of the notion of messiah? Fri Sept 18 @ 6pm-7pm TheoCon Happy Hour w/ God Loves Geeks Register at http://bit.ly/theoconhappyhour Bring your favorite beverage in your favorite glass, mug or flagon and join Pastor... Read more

2020-09-10T09:42:43-04:00

Last updated on: September 10, 2020 at 9:42 am   By

Today seems like a good occasion to revisit a document that was issued in conjunction with a congress of world religions in 2016, a Declaration of Human Rights issued by and reflecting the perspective of the world’s major religions. The statement was a response to September 11th and has not received the attention I would have expected such a document to receive. The statement addresses a variety of matters pertaining to rights and the denial thereof that are sometimes associated... Read more

2020-09-09T13:40:26-04:00

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 1:40 pm   By

I promised a few months ago that sometime soon I would have a conversation with Aaron Abrahamson Cote, a Butler graduate who is a musician and recently started a project called Songs of Scripture. Well, yesterday we finally made it happen. Here is the latest episode of the ReligionProf Podcast with special guest Aaron Cote: In addition to the usual audio-only version of the podcast, here’s a special video edition! Check out the project’s YouTube channel, or better yet, pay a... Read more

2020-09-09T06:19:44-04:00

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 6:19 am   By

Warriors’ Gate is the final episode in the E-space trilogy. It is also the one which saw Romana depart, preferring to do so and remain in e-space than to return to Gallifrey. The Doctor mentions the I Ching, suggesting that random sampling accesses fundamental aspect of universe. Romana calls it superstition. I was surprised to discover that the episode is not penned by Douglas Adams, who authored a number of them during this era, since the idea of using randomness to... Read more

2020-09-06T15:23:20-04:00

Last updated on: September 6, 2020 at 3:23 pm   By

As I worked on a book chapter about afterlife and resurrection at the intersection between the Bible and science fiction, and had begun another book chapter about afterlife and resurrection in Black Mirror, the television series Upload was released and provided a great deal of interesting food for thought that touched on the same themes. The series manages to engage with serious issues pertaining to ethics and technology, including their religious aspect, while also being genuinely funny. Here are just a... Read more

2020-09-06T14:46:07-04:00

Last updated on: September 6, 2020 at 2:46 pm   By

I was so excited to see an announcement about the appearance of Elaine Storkey’s new book Women in a Patriarchal World: Twenty-Five Empowering Stories from the Bible. It appeared just in time for me to potentially take it into account as I worked on finishing my book What Jesus Learned from Women (which has now been submitted to the publisher, I am delighted to say). I took a peek inside on the Google Books preview and knew right away that I... Read more

2020-09-05T19:32:34-04:00

Last updated on: September 5, 2020 at 7:32 pm   By

Evangelicalism’s representatives tend to be characterized by two major characteristics: loud denunciation of the sins of others combined with the revelation sooner or later that those individuals were themselves living lives that are sinful by their own standards. Sometimes they are the very same sins they denounced, but not always. They have a profoundly ironic penchant for pointing to Romans 1 and denouncing same-sex relationships through appeal to that text, not seeming to realize the entire point of Paul’s rhetoric... Read more

2020-09-04T19:30:00-04:00

Last updated on: September 4, 2020 at 7:30 pm   By

I planned to talk about religious experience in a blog post already. It is something of profound personal significance and interest to me, something that came up in a number of outlets that I follow or in other things that people drew to my attention, and was also brought up by a Facebook friend in a question. Then the movie Fatima was released, and I knew it was time to finish off this post. The movie is worthwhile watching for... Read more

2020-08-31T18:31:22-04:00

Last updated on: August 31, 2020 at 6:31 pm   By

Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture A (Virtual) Interdisciplinary Conference January 14 – 15, 2021   Venue: Cappadocia University, Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir/Turkey (Virtual-Microsoft Teams) Keynote speaker: TBA Description: “The abandoned towers in the distance are like the coral of an ancient reef- bleached and colourless, devoid of life. There still is life, however. Birds chirp; sparrows, they must be…Do they notice that quietness, the absence of motors? If so, are they happier?”... Read more

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