From Haiku Circus via Arni Zachariassen (who brilliantly dubbed it “Tractman”). Read more
From Haiku Circus via Arni Zachariassen (who brilliantly dubbed it “Tractman”). Read more
My review of The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke has appeared in Review of Biblical Literature and can be read online. Read more
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Joel Watts recently discovered 20th century orchestral music in the form of The Planets by Gustav Holst. I was all set to leave a recommendation of my favorites and complain about the fact that there is nowhere online to listen to one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, Kurt Atterberg’s Second Symphony, when a quick search turned up that it is now on YouTube. So here is my favorite part, the second movement – of which I particularly love... Read more
You’ve presumably seen episode I and episode II. The final installment of this carnival, like the later seasons of LOST, unveils what some of you suspected all along, its sci-fi character. And of course, fans of this carnival, like LOST fans, will debate endlessly whether the writer had this in mind from the outset or was just making it up as he went along… Frankenstein Steve Wiggins blogged about bad eggs…and Prometheus. The Matrix In the world of the Matrix,... Read more
As the Sci-Fi Catholic reports, George Lucas is intervening in the Star Wars universe again to inflict punishment on Darth Vader much as he has done to Yoda. IO9 describes it as Darth Vader “losing a little more of his dignity.” Also in the realm of religion and science fiction, and more specifically the justice of Vader’s fate, Unreasonable Faith interacted with my post about redemption in sci-fi. So the question now becomes whether Lucas’ torturing of Vader (and potentially us... Read more
This is just a reminder that today is the last day in which you can use the coupon code RASF to get 40% off the price of the paperback edition of Religion and Science Fiction via the publisher’s web site. The Kindle edition is also available. If you missed them, I have been doing a series on “Reasons to Buy Religion and Science Fiction” which photoshop the book into various sci-fi scenes. Here’s a round-up of those posts, in case... Read more
Via Deane Galbraithe: Call for papers: Histories of the End In 2012 Relegere will publish a special issue dedicated to reception histories of the end times, however they might be imagined, in religious contexts. We welcome reception histories not only of Christian imaginaries of the book of Revelation, but also of the end of days in other traditions and in more diffuse settings such as the Western esoteric and New Age milieus. If you are interested in submitting to Relegere’s “Histories of... Read more
Episode III of the Biblical Studies Carnival is coming soon, and its theme will be…well, since almost no one expressed any interest in offering their opinion about what the theme should be, the theme will be a surprise, and thus inevitably something that I will like and no one else will. But I will ask for your input one last time. If there are posts around the blogosphere related to Biblical studies that you think I might have missed, let... Read more
I just spotted a news article at IO9 about the fact that the majority of respondents to a survey attributed the following quote to Captain America: “We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up.” That’s 2 Corinthians 4:8 in the translation of the Contemporary English Version. And as most readers of this blog will know, 2 Corinthians was not written by Captain America. The original source of the... Read more
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