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An article in the New York Times today compared the recent joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature to the Mos Eisley Cantina. And that is a moment at the intersection of religion and science fiction that I couldn\u2019t allow to pass unmentioned! Brian Le Port offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,88,91],"tags":[170,195,281,552,1563,4798,4800,4892,6034,7718,8078,10835,11511,11822,11970],"class_list":["post-10827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-academy-of-religion","category-society-of-biblical-literature","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-aarsbl","tag-sblaar","tag-aar","tag-american-academy-of-religion","tag-cantina","tag-hotel","tag-hotels","tag-hyatt","tag-justice","tag-mos-eisley","tag-new-york-times","tag-sbl","tag-society-of-biblical-literature","tag-star-wars","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"\n
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