Another Star Wars Christmas mash-up that I made. Feel free to use it for Christmas cards, if you are so inclined! Read more
Another Star Wars Christmas mash-up that I made. Feel free to use it for Christmas cards, if you are so inclined! Read more
I found this image at a site I discovered today, the satirical site The Creation News. It illustrates the method some commenters (and one in particular) have used in advocating young-earth creationism in recent discussions on this blog so precisely, that I thought I should share it. The illustration with cute bunnies still makes the point much more effectively, though. Read more
Why am I posting this rather unusual image of the Life of Christ in Cats? Other than the fact that it will irritate Jim West, I’m not really sure. But isn’t that reason enough? From Feministe via Why Evolution is True Read more
The episode of Doctor Who “The Romans” from the William Hartnell era only intersects tangentially with religion, but it does so in interesting ways. The Doctor and his companions end up in Rome in the time of Nero, and the Doctor actually gets mistaken for a lyre player who has been invited to Nero’s palace. He inadvertently gives Nero the idea to set fire to Rome, leading Vicky to upbraid him for always telling them not to meddle with history,... Read more
I think this is my first attempt at making a mash up. Let me know what you think! Read more
With thanks to Chris Brady for reminding me that I needed to go explore the “Coffee With Jesus” series of comics… Read more
Another verse that I highlighted in Romans 9 in my Sunday school class this past week is Paul’s statement in 9:3: For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. There seems to me to be a huge, stark difference between what Paul wrote there and the sort of outlook expressed by groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church, or more recently, the inaccurately-named “Christians for a... Read more
I am sure I must have seen this before at some point, but having come across it I felt it was worth sharing. It certainly fits one of the themes of this blog – the intersection of religion and science fiction! Read more
A question came up on Facebook about the genre of the Book of Job in the Bible. It is mostly poetry. You can tell in most English Bibles by the formatting on the page. The two line units, with the second line indented, and “thought rhymes” (matching or contrasting ideas) in both of the two, are the parallelism that is the most characteristic feature of Hebrew poetry. I have yet to meet someone who truly thinks that the book is... Read more
This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we reached Romans 9. I was struck recently for the first time by the possibility that Paul’s use of texts in this section might be profoundly and perhaps intentionally ironic. The idea that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and that God hated Esau, have something in common – and not just the fact that they represent problematic and objectionable details in Scripture. They are also traditional affirmations of divine election of the Jewish... Read more
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