The review I wrote of Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus (Sheffield: Equinox, 2012) has appeared in Review of Biblical Literature, and can be read for free online. Read more
The review I wrote of Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus (Sheffield: Equinox, 2012) has appeared in Review of Biblical Literature, and can be read for free online. Read more
I spotted someone at GenCon wearing a t-shirt that said: My patronus is a tribble with a sonic screwdriver piloting an X-Wing into Mordor Someone was wearing it, I don’t remember seeing it for sale. But there were a lot of cool ones being sold, and I particularly liked this one, for music geeks: Read more
As we start a new semester, it is important to call to mind bad examples as well as good ones. Do you have a bad feeling about this semester? I'll be teaching my course on religion and science fiction, which made this Star Wars comic seem particularly relevant. Read more
Charles Spurgeon's famous quote, updated for more recent Bible-reading technology. HT Christian Memes on Facebook. Read more
Rachel Held Evans and Hemant Mehta appeared on CNN talking about why millennials are leaving the church: I find the notion that a comparison of the subscribers to the atheism and Christianity subreddits tells us much. But the actual discussion is interesting. On a related note, Rod the Rogue Demon Hunter offered the best Star Wars pun related to this topic I’ve heard yet. He asked “Why are all the Millennium Falcons leaving the church? Because…It’s a trap!” Read more
GenCon ended today – I was only there on Saturday. I managed to see people I knew, even though the entire convention center, and the exhibit hall, were reminiscent of Where’s Waldo: And so I really liked that one couple decided to wear such appropriate costumes: The above photos were not taken by me, but they are from the GenCon Facebook page and were taken on the day that I was there, I did in fact find the Waldos myself... Read more
I had barely posted on the fact that the story of Noah's ark makes at least slightly more sense when one includes hyper-fast evolution, when the blog The Layman's Answer to Everything posted about the story of Noah's ark being a parable of evolution. When the metaphorical flood comes, the fittest survive. Then Chris Brady shared a cartoon depicting creation in a manner that sci-fi fans and neo-Gnostics alike should appreciate: Meanwhile, Ben Stanhope responded to Answers in Genesis, pointing... Read more
If you're determined to be a Biblical literalist, or at least to pretend to be one (since no one is really one), you don't have to deny evolution. Indeed, there is a better option, that accepts that evolution occurred and says that God miraculously does evolution better than natural causes could! Since there is no way that all the different “kinds” of animals that exist in the world could have fit into Noah's ark, young-earth creationists end up claiming that... Read more
It seems appropriate to mention, during this weekend of GenCon here in Indianapolis, a card game that Jeremy Smith's blog drew to my attention to. “A Game for Good Christians” is apparently a variation of a game I had never heard of, “Cards Against Humanity,” which is a bit like a rude and lewd Mad Libs card game, if I've understood it correctly. I actually spotted the booth of Cards Against Humanity at GenCon, and it must have been popular,... Read more
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