Tyler Francke made the above gem. Read more
Tyler Francke made the above gem. Read more
The publisher Darton, Longman, and Todd has remodeled their online presence. Among the offerings on their new web site is a web page about the forthcoming book Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who, edited by Andrew Crome and myself, which is due out next month. It includes chapter titles and other details. So click through to take a look! Read more
I was asked to review the forthcoming documentary movie, A Polite Bribe, about the apostle Paul’s “offering” to the Jerusalem church from the Gentile churches he established. Unfortunately, my access to the online preview expired before I could finish watching. But from what I saw, I can say it is worth watching and offers interesting perspectives from scholars and a provocative interpretation of the data. Larry Hurtado has blogged about the film twice, and Richard Fellows has also posted recently about the... Read more
Via The High Council of Time Lords on Facebook. I can't believe that no one thought of this sooner! Read more
Just in case anyone missed this video on physics, in an a capella rendition of the classic Queen song, here it is! Read more
LOST aired for the first time nine years ago today. People are still talking about it. People still bring it up in conversations with me. Often they were dissatisfied with the ending – and I am surprised that there are people who have completely misunderstood the ending, thinking that “the entire thing was Jack’s dream” or “they were all dead all along” or other things that are incompatible with what the show actually depicted, never mind what writers and producers... Read more
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Read more
As modern people, we often find it hard to believe that ancient people lived as they did. And in the case of some practices, like human sacrifice, we may suspect that reports are exaggerated. In a discussion in a comment thread, this subject came up. Ezekiel 20:25-26 seems to suggest that child sacrifice in Israel was once not only common but required by law. Of course, laws which simply say that every firstborn male is to be offered to God... Read more
Someone posted this photo of an action figure on Facebook, and I thought that the symbolism was poignant. Lots of people have a “Jesus” who is “bendable” and “poseable” and so he is flexible enough to fit in with – and even serve as a symbol of – their values and worldview. Read more
Today my class on “Religion and Freedom of Expression” met for the first time. It is a class with a non-traditional format – we meet a few Saturday mornings for a few hours, plus also four evenings when students attend lectures in our public lecture series and have dinner and a Q&A time with the speakers beforehand. The reading was Randall Bezanson’s book How Free Can Religion Be? which is a pretty wonderful treatment of the history of the Supreme Court’s... Read more
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