Some of you may remember that schoolchildren in the UK were invited to submit scripts for a Doctor Who mini-episode. Here’s the winning entry, starring Matt Smith…and Albert Einstein! Read more
Some of you may remember that schoolchildren in the UK were invited to submit scripts for a Doctor Who mini-episode. Here’s the winning entry, starring Matt Smith…and Albert Einstein! Read more
Doctor Who fans may be wondering what to do between now and the next new episode, the Christmas special that is a few months away. I’m planning to re-watch or at least listen to all Doctor Who episodes, beginning from the very beginning. I’ve seen many of them before, but have not watched or listened to most of the lost episodes. And so a substantial number of the episodes from the time of the first two Doctors will in fact... Read more
An interesting article that was shared on Facebook argues that progressive or liberal Christianity is where Christianity is headed in our time. John Shore, the author, makes some good points along the way, regardless whether you find his point about the alleged inevitability of what he depicts less than persuasive. Here’s a sample: In the old days, it was easy for the vast majority of American Christians to believe that, say, Jews and homosexuals (to name but two of the... Read more
Scott Bailey has now posted the main course entree of the Biblical Studies Carnival. Bon appetit! Read more
I didn’t get around to posting on the first episode of the new season of Fringe, but there is a real sense in which the second episode, “One Night in October,” picks up some of the interesting elements of the first and carries them further in an emotionally powerful manner that some of us will inevitably compare to and associate with another famous show created by J. J. Abrams. In this most recent episode, the major plot focus is on... Read more
“The Wedding of River Song” was absolutely fantastic as an episode offering all that we hope for from Doctor Who, as well as providing a satisfying season finale and pointing ahead to what lies ahead on the Fields of Tranzelor. Spoilers lie ahead, because this episode is just too full of good stuff not to comment on it. So if you are trying to avoid spoilers, please turn back now. Everyone else, on we go! The way the episode begins... Read more
The new #1 Biblioblogger is fellow Patheos blogger Scot McKnight’s blog Jesus Creed. Congratulations to Scot and RJS who also blogs there occionally. Exploring Our Matrix came in at #3. Thank you, as always, to all of this blog’s readers and commenters! Several Bibliobloggers have been active in editing the Wikipedia entry about the fake Jordanian lead codices. The Biblioblog Reference Library page on the lead codices has been updated with lots of interesting and important information. Over at Scotteriology,... Read more
After I expressed some disappointment with Rod’s treatment of the final piece in Religion and Science Fiction, he has written this rejoinder, which I think offers a helpful discussion of his approach and perspective, as well as clarifying his meaning in the earlier blog post. I would note that Teresa Blythe’s contribution to the volume doesn’t really offer a “method” in the sense of a unified perspective and accompanying set of tools, but in the sense of a set of... Read more
I have begun listening to early Doctor Who episodes in the car in audiobook form. I started with this episode, “The Power of the Daleks.” It was the first to feature a regeneration scene, and the first episode in which Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell, who up until that time was the only actor to play the Doctor on the TV series. The Power of the Daleks is one of the many lost episodes from the earlier period of Doctor... Read more
Rod has finished blogging through Religion and Science Fiction over at Political Jesus. I must say that I am rather disappointed with how his series ended – with Rod asserting more than once that everything is allegory, and allegory everything. One of the points the book illustrates throughout, and the final chapter emphasized only to apparently have it ignored by Rod, is that the search for allegories in sci-fi (and other literature and films), looking for Christ figures for instance,... Read more
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