When I shared an image in a post called “Church Trap” recently, I mentioned resisting the temptation to add Admiral Ackbar to the image. It turns out that I’m not as good at resisting temptation as I thought I was, and so here it is: Read more
When I shared an image in a post called “Church Trap” recently, I mentioned resisting the temptation to add Admiral Ackbar to the image. It turns out that I’m not as good at resisting temptation as I thought I was, and so here it is: Read more
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Early last year, I posted about the fact that we had made a squirrel baffle by tying the large bird seed bag on the pole that our bird feeder was on. You can click through to see a photo and read about the design. I had always been astonished that the squirrels seemed to have given up trying to circumvent it, since they are known for their persistence. Today I found out why. Here is what turned out to be... Read more
I love John Rutter’s music. This setting of “This is the Day” was performed at the royal wedding by the Westminster Abbey Choir. HT Methoughts, mefeats, and medefeats. Read more
Larry Hurtado posted recently about his talk on “fallacies and fashions” in New Testament studies. One fashionable fallacy he focused on is the notion of a pre-Christian Gnostic redeemer myth, as was posited by the History of Religion School in the 20th century. As Hurtado mentions, Carsten Colpe (in Die religionsgeschichtliche Schule: Darstellung und Kritik ihres Bildes vom gnostischen Erlosermythus) offered very important and powerful critiques of Richard Reitzenstein’s claims, which were widely accepted at that time. But if there... Read more
My religion and science fiction class will be discussing clones next time. If this SMBC comic is anything to go by, it shouldn't take too long… Read more
Someone on Reddit posted this picture of a sukkah on their campus. Some Jewish Whovians somewhere clearly know how to celebrate Sukkoth properly! Read more
Via IO9, I learned of this video with the adult Darth Vader in Star Wars: A New Hope speaking with his prepubescent voice from Episode I. Enjoy! Read more
In the process of moving my blog to Patheos, a number of embedded videos were lost. And so there is apparently now no post on this blog which features one of my favorite pieces of music, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s violin concerto. And so here it is, performed by Hilary Hahn, who will be coming to perform Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra soon. Read more
It is important to tread carefully when something tragic is in the news, such as Aaron Alexis' recent shooting rampage at a Navy yard. But my students are continuing to discuss the Abraham story and the Euthyphro today, and we simply cannot bypass the question of how one would react to someone in our time who hears voices, someone who claims a divine command is their motivation to harm another person. I'm not saying that that was the nature of... Read more
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