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May 07, 2018
Divine Plagiarism
I leave the theme of creation until well into the semester when I teach the...
February 2018
February 12, 2018
Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Exhibit
I had the opportunity to make a guest appearance at one session of this year-long...
July 2017
July 27, 2017
More Genesis Games, Plus Apocrypha
Another couple of games with biblical themes came to my attention recently. One is Genesis,...
June 2017
June 24, 2017
Doctor Who: World Enough and Time
SPOILERS AHEAD! The episode begins with the Doctor exiting the TARDIS on a frozen landscape...
February 2017
February 22, 2017
Andrei Petrov, Creation of the World Suite
The above piece by Russian composer Andrei Petrov is but one of many musical works inspired...
February 16, 2017
The Hippopotamus Song
I mentioned previously my hope that students would broaden my horizons. That happened during the...
January 2017
January 24, 2017
“Sarah” by Elizabeth Swados
January 23, 2017
Genesis Suite
A multi-author effort by some of the 20th century's great composers: Arnold Schoenberg, Nathaniel Shilkret, Aleksander...
January 12, 2017
The Bible as Tree of Knowledge
In a recent Facebook exchange, I formulated some points that seem to me to have...
October 2016
October 02, 2016
Genesis as Ink Blot
What do you think? Do you find this analogy which Daniel Eaton came up with...
August 2016
August 10, 2016
Origen vs. Ken Ham
This meme came my way via God of Evolution on Facebook, and I have been...
August 09, 2016
Once Upon a Time in the Beginning
Hemant Mehta shared the image above. What strikes me most is that the change seems...
July 2016
July 23, 2016
Jacob and the Angel for Piano and Orchestra
I expect that I will be using Max Stern's books about Bible and Music and Psalms...
June 2016
June 01, 2016
Never Children
This Bizarro cartoon gets at one of the problems with the idea that Adam and...
March 2016
March 24, 2016
What is the Genesis of this Image?
I've been asked about the original source of the image above, illustrating how people in...
February 2016
February 15, 2016
The Big Story
The above video featuring Rev. Leonard J. Vander Zee offers a very interesting retelling of...
February 02, 2016
X-Files 10.3 – Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
This was a great episode, of the satirical and self-parodying sort that the X-Files regularly...
September 2015
September 17, 2015
The Other Arks
Hemant Mehta shared the above cartoon. It is always good to ask about things a story doesn't...
September 03, 2015
Proof Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Care What the Bible Says
The Institute for Creation Research recently shared the above image on Facebook, claiming that Jesus quotes...
August 2015
August 04, 2015
Literalism = Misconception and Incoherence
The quote comes from p. xxiii of Nahum Sarna's book Understanding Genesis.
July 2015
July 26, 2015
Cain the Drama Queen (YEC Version of Genesis 4)
The image comes from God of Evolution on Facebook. Obviously young-earth creationists can explain away...
July 22, 2015
Biblical Scholars Fighting Creationism
Hector Avalos has a new article in The Bible and Interpretation about the need for Biblical scholars...
June 2015
June 01, 2015
Prophets of the Technological Future
I had been meaning to blog about the movie Ex Machina for a while now....
May 2015
May 20, 2015
Genesis 1 (Fixed It For You)
So-called "literal" interpreters of Genesis are often blind to the things they read into the...
March 2015
March 13, 2015
Review of The Lost World of Adam and Eve
I'm delighted to be a participant in the Patheos Book Club about John Walton's latest...
February 2015
February 23, 2015
David Clines on the Varieties of Biblical Creation
Biblical Studies Online shared the above lecture by David Clines, which is about the variety...
January 2015
January 13, 2015
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
"Genesis of the Daleks" is arguably one of the greatest episodes in Doctor Who history....
January 08, 2015
Genesis 37:3 (Whovian Version)
January 08, 2015
John Walton on Genesis and Ancient Creation Ideas
I became aware today of two talks by John Walton. The first is primarily about...
January 03, 2015
Origen on Adam (Corrected)
Ken Brown pointed out that the image I shared misattributed the quotation to the wrong...
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