{"id":26362,"date":"2014-09-30T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26362"},"modified":"2014-09-30T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:08:07","slug":"doctor-who-and-religion-a-short-trip-through-50-years-of-time-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/09\/doctor-who-and-religion-a-short-trip-through-50-years-of-time-and-space.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who and Religion: A Short Trip through 50 years of Time and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26371\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/09\/OleMiss-Dr-Who.png\" alt=\"OleMiss Dr Who\" width=\"474\" height=\"577\"><\/p>\n<p>I will be guest speaking later this week at\u00a0the University of Mississippi,\u00a0as the first of this year\u2019s Religion Forum speakers. 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