Check out this musically delightful and wonderfully entertaining arrangement of familiar themes from the music of Star Wars for violin and voice, performed by Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens! And on a related note, here is a book that might be a perfect gift for the stormtrooper in your life: Read more
Via Facebook, I learned of the Honest Church Signs Tumblr. They are not real signs found anywhere, but they could be, as some of them hit quite close to home. Here are a few samples. Click through to browse more. Even if they were fabricated using online church sign creators, what honest church signs have you seen? Read more
After I posted about the Zombie Bible series, someone commented on Facebook that they need to do one set in ancient Greece, and call it the Zombie Acropolis. Thinking this was a great pun, I was going to suggest that someone should make a picture. Turns out the internet was way ahead of me: And so the pun of the day award goes to “Zombie Acropolis.” Read more
Via Paul Regnier’s blog, I learned of Strangers in the Land (The Zombie Bible). It is apparently part of a series in which the Bible reimagined with zombies. The author’s web site describes the premise as follows: Strangers in the Land, the story of a zombie apocalypse in 1160 BC Israel, is 412 pages of wild momentum … a world carried to the brink. Four must stand against the dead: The aging prophetess Devora. Hurriya, the slave girl. Zadok, a... Read more
David Hayward posted this image on his blog earlier today: David didn’t seem to have problems with the disconnect between the methods, or the message, of Joel Osteen in comparison with Jesus. Yet the “Nailed It” meme is all about people trying to do something and missing the mark so badly that it is funny. Here are a couple of geeky examples: There’s another one with princess Leia in this collection. I think that a more suitable image, in keeping... Read more
Via the Butler Connection, I learned about this upcoming event: University of Indianapolis Professor of Biology Dr. John Langdon and former microbiologist/current pastor of Cross and Crown Lutheran Church Rev. Christine Wulff will discuss the intersection of faith and science at the Center for Faith and Vocation, 4615 Sunset Ave., beginning at 6:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 23. Have you had the impression that faith and science are mutually exclusive? That believing in God and taking religion seriously means “checking your brain at the door”... Read more
I made the infographic above in response to a discussion of an infographic I recently shared, which led to a discussion of the problem of infographics with dubious information. I'm particularly grateful to commenter Cosmo Fish for a comment with an amusing made-up statistic that helped inspire this! Read more
The Gospel of John may be the first Gospel that we know of to bring the question of its author’s credentials into the work itself (the Gospel of Luke does something similar, with its emphasis on the author’s research, but it may or may not be earlier than John). In the period not long after this, we would see a proliferation of Gospels, letters, and other works appealing to named apostles in order to vouchsafe the new ideas that they... Read more
Joel Watts posted the infographic below. If its statistics are true, they are depressing… Read more
Marc Cortez was one of several people to share a UK heritage blue plaque about a time traveler. I thought that this one made more sense: Read more
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