I saw this at Stuff Fundies Like and, like all things at the intersection of religion and science fiction, thought it was worth sharing… Read more

While Rachel Held Evans’ Rally for Unity is off to a good start, Mason has a tongue-in-cheek post calling for an opposing March to Keep Disunity Alive which many will enjoy. Read more

Lost fans, if you’ve been wondering what the smoke monster has been working on since LOST finished, you may have actually seen him in a couple of recent movies. “At first, I have to admit, I was disappointed,” said the infamous smoke monster, who prefers “Smokey” or even “the smoke monster” to “Jacob’s nameless brother.” Having been promised a prominent role in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, black smoke ended up being needed only in one scene for a single spell. Matters improved,... Read more

I’m sure many of you were startled, shocked, and concerned when you saw Michael Gorman’s most recent blog post, “Chris Tilling on the Cross.” Do not be alarmed. A close look at the content indicates that the headline does not mean either that Michael is confused about who died for his sins, or that Chris has been martyred. He meant that Chris Tilling talked about the cross. Click through to see Chris’ Good Friday meditations, or simply to express your... Read more

Thanks to everyone who voted for Exploring Our Matrix this month. It is number one again! Dan McClellan Steve Caruso also listed some new additions to the biblioblogosphere, as well as one old one that almost had me hoping he had taken up blogging again. Read more

Jeremy has posted the biblioblog rankings for this past month. Exploring Our Matrix came in at number 3. Thanks to all my readers! Jim Linville promises that the monthly Biblical Studies Carnival is coming soon…but slowly. Read more

When I travel to Israel this summer, I will be testing out the blogging capabilities of the iPad 2, in the hope that when I travel with students I can keep them in touch with their families and post photos from the trip. To that end, I’ll be trying out some blogging apps, including the one I am composing this on, namely BlogPress. One very nice feature is that you can take a photo using the built-in iPad 2 camera... Read more

Congratulations to Ken Miller, who has been named the winner of the 2011 Stephen Jay Gould Prize. If you have never read it, or if you know someone who has been duped by promoters of Young-Earth Creationism or Intelligent Design, I strongly recommend his book Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. Read more

Congratulations to Nathan MacDonald, well known for his work on monotheism. He has received the 2011 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship. Read more

The Safe Assign feature on Blackboard is great for detecting and deterring plagiarism. But I’m finding an additional use fot it in teaching freshman core writing courses. If you teach a course in which students have to submit a draft, get feedback (and perhaps a grade) on the draft, and then revise the essay and submit it again, Safe Assign will give a “false positive” of a high likelihood or certainty of plagiarism, because it will match that assignment against the... Read more