Many other people have already shared this video from Stephen Colbert. Sorry it took me so long to watch and share it. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog March to Keep Fear Alive HT to Faith in Public Life, Bob Cargill, Joel Watts, Daniel Kirk, Matthew Paul Turner, New Ways Forward and Michael Halcomb. (It is easier to give a hat tip... Read more
That’s not my description of him, but the name of the song he is playing in this video. I’m not the accompanist in this one. Read more
This post will reflect a bit more on the religious overtones, symbolism and message of TRON Legacy, and in doing so will discuss details of the story. And so if you have not seen the movie and are trying to avoid SPOILERS then you should bookmark this post and come back to it after you’ve had a chance to see the movie. TRON Legacy, much like the original TRON movie, both makes use of an subverts or inverts symbols and... Read more
By some quirk of synchronicity, I found the CD of Journey’s album Frontiers on the clearance shelf at Half Price Books today. Their biggest hit from that album, “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” featured in TRON Legacy, and of course Journey contributed two songs to the original TRON soundtrack. I’ve always particularly liked this one, “Only Solutions”: The original score from TRON was by Wendy Carlos. Here’s the theme music, which should bring back memories: Read more
I went last night (sorry, very early this morning) to see the 12:01 showing of TRON Legacy. I’m not certain why the movie is getting so many negative reviews. Perhaps, as with more recent Star Wars movies (which are appreciated just fine by the young and spoken of with disdain by many of their parents), the issue is a recollection of the magic of the original TRON movie, and the failure of this sequel, seen as an adult, to live... Read more
I mentioned previously the need for professors to get students to spend less time reading Wikipedia and similar sources, and more time writing Wikipedia, contributing reliable information based on other reading they’ve been doing. Wikipedia is a busy place and many of its pages are the front lines of an internet battlefield. Leaving that to grad students, I decided it was preferable to send undergraduates into the calmer countrysides of Wikibooks, which also offers precisely what I was looking for... Read more
A student included this quotation, attributed to French author Andre Gide, in an essay this semester: “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” I just read it a few moments ago for the first time, as I was grading, and thought I’d share it. Thoughts? Read more
The Bucharest Madrigal Choir sings the Romanian Christmas carol “Iată vin colindători“: Read more
Larry Hurtado has shared a recently-published essay on his blog. The title is “Early Devotion to Jesus: A Report, Reflections and Implications.“ Read more
Jonathan Robinson has made his MTh thesis available online. The title is “Sex, Slogans and Σώµατα: Discovering Paul’s Theological Ethic in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.” Read more
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