{"id":38643,"date":"2016-11-06T06:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=38643"},"modified":"2016-11-05T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:46:43","slug":"excommunicate-excommunicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/11\/excommunicate-excommunicate.html","title":{"rendered":"Excommunicate! Excommunicate!"},"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=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/10\/stained-glass-Dalek.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38656\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38656\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/10\/stained-glass-Dalek.png\" alt=\"stained glass Dalek\" width=\"357\" height=\"201\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/this-gorgeous-stained-glass-dalek-is-just-as-likely-to-1788192467\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a> which drew my attention to the fact that an artist had created a digital replica of a stained-glass Dalek for use on the cover of the\u00a0Doctor Who audiobook, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/order-of-the-daleks-1057\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Order of the Daleks<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieanderson.me.uk\/designing-stained-glass-dalek\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The artist talks more about the project on his website.<\/a>\u00a0You may not be surprised to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/sophonax-skitty.deviantart.com\/art\/Stained-Glass-Dalek-Sundial-145706031\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">other artists have also had the idea.<\/a>\u00a0And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/10\/doctor-who-the-novelization-of-the-daleks.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">as I mentioned some years ago, the novelization of the early Doctor Who episode \u201cThe Daleks\u201d features a glass Dalek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2016\/08\/05\/coming-soon-big-finishs-doctor-who-order-of-the-daleks\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Order of the Daleks<\/a><\/em> is a story I\u2019ll need to listen to, since it is bound to include interesting religious themes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was IO9 which drew my attention to the fact that an artist had created a digital replica of a stained-glass Dalek for use on the cover of the\u00a0Doctor Who audiobook, Order of the Daleks. 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