The Evolutionary Christianity blog today shared this video of Michael Dowd on New Hampshire public television, speaking about his faith, his life-changing religious and scientific experiences, and his views on religion and science: Read more

Evangelical Textual Criticism announced the relaunch of the journal TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism. Jan Krans at the Amsterdam NT Weblog says a bit more about the contents of the latest volume and what is in store in the near future. And Chuck Jones at AWOL provides convenient links to back issues. . Read more

One obvious point of intersection between religion and science fiction is that both tend to feature a savior figure. Today IO9 offered a tongue-in-cheek list of 10 signs that you could be the chosen savior. And Marc Oromaner at Diary of a Layman offered a post, “Was Jesus a User?” exploring the religious aspects of a variety of virtual worlds featured in a range of science fiction movies, including TRON, which provided the language used in the title of his... Read more

Ken Schenck has provided what he calls a “Philo cheat sheet.” Learn the most essential things you need to know about Philo of Alexandria in half an hour or less! Read more

After digging up the original Star Wars Holiday Special, Scott Bailey has done one better and provided us with this hilarious parody, given the title “The Star Wars Christmas Special… That Everyone Really Wanted.” You’re going to love it. It is laugh out loud brilliant! Read more

This post provides official notification of my intention, on or immediately prior to the 25th of December 2010, to wish readers of my blog a Merry Christmas. If you are likely to find such expression of Christmas greetings/wishes offensive, you are hereby asked to refrain from reading any and all posts on this blog which may have Christmas, Noel, or other synonymous terminology in the title which may be posted between midnight of December 24th and midnight of December 26th... Read more

Here’s another great Romanian Christmas carol, “O Ce Veste Minunata” (“Oh What Wonderful News”): Read more

Adam Cleaveland has announced on his blog pomomusings that he and his wife will be watching the entire series LOST over the Christmas holiday. They have seen it before, but want to experience it as a unified story (although they apparently do not plan to watch all 91 hours without breaks). Adam will be live tweeting it. Read more

I’m not sure why I couldn’t see it, but here’s the picture which Jim Linville created, which I mentioned in my previous post: Read more

When I had the surge in hits today, I suspected that it was simply someone eager to be the person responsible for the one millionth hit, since I had offered to announce who it was on the blog. But since no one has contacted me to say that it was them, I am beginning to suspect that something more sinister is afoot. Could it be that Jim West, fearful that my plan to challenge his status as undefeated champion of... Read more