I have set up Feedburner with the feed from this blog so that you should be able to use Feedburner and follow Exploring Our Matrix now and anywhere it may go in the future, without having to make any changes yourself. The feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/ExploringOurMatrix/ should work. If it doesn’t, and even if it does, let me know. Read more
This post is not about whether a ‘real ark’ can be found on a mountain somewhere. The question is whether the story of Noah’s Ark can be told today in a way that continues to serve any healthy, positive, meaningful purpose. The story is so familiar from childhood that we can forget that it is about God obliterating not merely the whole human race except for Noah and his family, but also every other living thing. The fact that this... Read more
From The Sacred Sandwich via Progressive Involvement Read more
The kind technology people at Patheos are working on getting the archives from the Blogger site moved here. In the mean time, I think I’ll start doing something I did from time to time on the old site as well, namely post something “From the Archives” (which I’ll label as such), an older post which, at the time I wrote it, and in some cases ever since, generated interesting discussion. Coming soon! Read more
Kitten vs. a scary thing Read more
Hope you enjoyed my attempt at photoshop humor. Either way, here are some links to other blogs that have been discussing Harold Camping in general, or specifically his latest rescheduling of the Rapture for October. Or is it rap tour? Does it really matter? Jasob Boyett, “Harold Camping: Invisible Judgment Day” Wheat Among Tares, “Camping Not Giving Up the Ghost” Homebrewed Christianity, “Hangover: Waking Up From The Rapture” Religion Nerd, “The Nonapocalypse as Postmodern Ritual” DoOrDoNot, “The Return of Harold... Read more
My blogging through Earl Doherty’s book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man continues here with chapter 6. For those who wish to read a post trying to put a positive spin on the weak and unpersuasive claims in this chapter, Neil Godfrey has what you are looking for on his blog Vridar. What I will offer here is a discussion of why the chapter, like the rest of the book so far, represents when at its best unconvincing arguments and unsubstantiated... Read more
Regular readers of Exploring Our Matrix know that one of the topics I have been blogging about for some time is mythicism – the viewpoint that Jesus is more likely to be a purely fictional figure invented more-or-less from scratch based on earlier mythical figures and texts, than to be a historical figure around whom myths and legends subsequently developed. It is not a viewpoint that historians and scholars find persuasive, and since the agreement of experts often fails to... Read more
There’s a reason why I called my blog “Exploring Our Matrix” – it started as a venue for exploring the intersection of religion and science fiction, which at that point was still more of a side interest than something I taught about and published on. That topic continues to make the news and get attention even years later. Today Jim Davila drew attention to several articles, among which were the following two from Screened: Keoni Chavez on “Knowing Is Half... Read more
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One of the interesting aspects of the move to Patheos has been learning the ropes of the comment system Disqus. There are some things that I can control, and some things that each person can set up as their individual preferences. But since I see the comments as an administrator, I may not realize which things only I can see and which ones you can too. There are also differences in how Disqus appears and performs on different browsers. So... Read more