{"id":2885,"date":"2010-06-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/doctor-who-amy-chooses-religion-dispatches\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T00:01:00","slug":"doctor-who-amy-chooses-religion-dispatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/doctor-who-amy-chooses-religion-dispatches.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who: Amy Chooses Religion Dispatches"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Light-Other-Days-Arthur-Clarke\/dp\/0765322870?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Light of Other Days\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0765322870&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2010\/06\/amys-choice-will-the-real-universe-please-stand-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0765322870\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/editorial\/2710\/which_is_the_%E2%80%98real%E2%80%99_reality:_doctor_who_part_iv\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion Dispatches has posted the latest in the Doctor Who Media Club series<\/a>, with contributions by myself, Gabriel McKee and Henry Jenkins.Gabriel McKee mentioned on his own blog<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2010\/06\/through-a-wormhole-darkly-the-light-of-other-days.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Gabriel\u2019s blog is a discussion<\/a> of the novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Light-Other-Days-Arthur-Clarke\/dp\/0765322870?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Light of Other Days<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0765322870\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"> <\/em>by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. The novel (which I have not read) is apparently about using wormhole technology to see other times in history, and it touches on religion in places (since you can imagine one of the points in history that many might be interested in seeing).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7122010858212848661?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that Religion Dispatches has posted the latest in the Doctor Who Media Club series, with contributions by myself, Gabriel McKee and Henry Jenkins.Gabriel McKee mentioned on his own blog Also on Gabriel\u2019s blog is a discussion of the novel The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. 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