As I mentioned a while back, I’ll be participating in a “blog tour” around the book A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus. In connection with that, Baker Academic Press is holding a giveaway, and you can now visit their site and participate. Read more
As I mentioned a while back, I’ll be participating in a “blog tour” around the book A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus. In connection with that, Baker Academic Press is holding a giveaway, and you can now visit their site and participate. Read more
As I mentioned a while back, I’ll be participating in a “blog tour” around the book A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus. In connection with that, Baker Academic Press is holding a giveaway, and you can now visit their site and participate. Read more
There has been a fair bit of interest and discussion in response to my post on the most recent Doctor Who episode, “The God Complex.” Here are some other reviews and blog reflections on the episode that I’m aware of: The Oncoming Hope God Complex aka The Characters Uncomplex Stuff and Conscience The Doctor and the Minotaur IO9 Dr. Who: The Hero Takes a Fall Inter-Galaxy Portal Review of The God Complex UPDATE: See also the post at Fat Train... Read more
Today’s episode of Doctor Who, with the title “The God Complex,” was bound to have interesting things to talk about if you are interested in religion and science fiction. But the episode offered far more than I anticipated, and the title (like quite a few recent titles of Doctor Who episodes) turned out to refer to something other than initially expected. Spoilers lie ahead, as do speculations about some of the mysteries, puzzles and clues. In the episode, the Doctor,... Read more
While searching for a recording of “O Fortuna” from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana I came across this video which brings together scenes from across the various six Star Wars films to that musical accompaniment, connecting the early and later in a pretty effective way. The look on Obi Wan Kenobi’s face in the first Star Wars film ever made, A New Hope, when Luke Skywalker asks him about his father, shows an incredible amount of forethought was already at work.... Read more
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Today the philosophy club at Butler University will be having a lunchtime discussion of morality. The reading that was circulated to provide a starting point for the discussion is an op-ed piece by Joel Marks in the New York Times, “Confessions of an Ex-Moralist.” Here’s a snippet: A friend had been explaining to me the nature of her belief in God. At one point she likened divinity to the beauty of a sunset: the quality lay not in the sunset... Read more
This story is weird, but in interesting ways (and if you are trying to avoid ever setting eyes on profanity, then I must ask you to avert them now). First, Superman was depicted as grunting in a recent comic book. Here’s the relevant panel: A Christian comic book store owner decided to boycott the comic, because apparently he thought that Superman had decided to speak out loud in internet abbreviations. And that abbreviation “GD” he understood to stand for “God... Read more
Episode #27 of the [ad hoc] Christianity podcast has just been posted, which is an interview with me, recorded last night. Click through to listen! Read more
Chris Tilling shared the news that a New Testament conference will be held at King’s College in London in December. It will focus on Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God and you can find more information on the conference blog. Read more