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February 2012

February 05, 2012

Both “Biblical” and Weak in Faith?

Today in my Sunday school class we reached Romans 14, which famously discusses the relationship...

February 02, 2012

Fringe: Why Did God Make Me This Way?

Should we refer to J. J. Abrams as in some sense a "theologian"? Last week's...

February 01, 2012

Evangelical Evolutionary Religious Naturalism

Michael Dowd has a blog post that reworks some fundamental tenets of Evangelicalism to be...

February 01, 2012

Pete Enns, The Evolution of Adam: Part 2

As part of the blog tour about Pete Enns' book The Evolution of Adam: What...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Right and Wrong about the Slippery Slope (Rachel Held Evans)

Rachel Held Evans shared this wonderful reflection on things she was told about the "dangers"...

January 30, 2012

Green Lantern

It seems as though all the recent superhero movies begin with theology. Green Lantern is...

January 30, 2012

Pete Enns, The Evolution of Adam: Introduction

Exploring Our Matrix is one of several blogs that is participating in the Pete Enns...

January 27, 2012

Paul Was Not A Biblicist

Biblicism - the view that one should adhere strictly to what the Bible says, word for...

January 25, 2012

Jeff Carter Blogs About The Only True God

Jeff Carter has been reading my book The Only True God and yesterday he blogged...

January 24, 2012

Doctor Who: Frontios

The episode "Frontios" from the classic Doctor Who series is in many ways a forerunner...

January 23, 2012

Help Needed With The Burial of Jesus

I was tempted to say "the reburial of Jesus" or "second Burial of Jesus" in...

January 23, 2012

Discussions of Evolution and Creationism Around the Blogosphere

Here are some links to discussions around the blogosphere which connect with this blog in...

January 19, 2012

Pete Enns on the Evolution of Adam

I'll be participating in the upcoming blog tour about Pete Enns' book The Evolution of...

January 19, 2012

Doctor Who: The Awakening

"The Awakening" is another relatively short episode (by the classic series' standards, not by today's,...

January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King and the Quest for a Just Society

This semester, my freshman seminar course "Faith, Doubt and Reason" focuses on utopias, dystopias, and...

January 14, 2012

Fringe is Back (to Where It’s Never Been)

Fringe returned last night with the episode "Back To Where You've Never Been." It featured...

January 13, 2012

Big God, Little God

I previously blogged about Sabio Lantz's diagram depicting a spectrum from a little to a...

January 13, 2012

Thank God, Blame God?

I've long complained about the tendency of religious believers to thank God when things go...

January 12, 2012

Could God Get Tenure?

I came across a bit of educational humor which I thought might be worth sharing,...

January 11, 2012

Jesus Have I Loved, But Paul? Chapter 3: Christianity as Community

With his new book Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?: A Narrative Approach to the...

January 08, 2012

How Big Is Your God?

Sabio Lantz posted a graphic asking how big your deity is, with a continuum running...

January 07, 2012

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

"The Celestial Toymaker" is an episode of Doctor Who from the William Hartnell era, and...

January 03, 2012

If You Can’t Have the Bible You’d Love, Love the Bible You Have

I probably shouldn't tamper with the wording of a song for the title of this...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

Thor: A World Where Magic and Science are the Same

I finally got around to watching the movie Thor last night and early this morning,...

December 24, 2011

Ring Out, Ye Crystal Spheres!

This is the epilogue from Ralph Vaughan Williams' Christmas cantata "Hodie," which adapts the words...

December 24, 2011

The Divinity of Christ: A Response to Roger Olson

In the same 24 hour period, Roger Olson and Daniel McClellan posted on the subject...

December 23, 2011

Time, Religion, and Science Fiction

RJS at Jesus Creed posted on the different views of time and how they relate...

December 22, 2011

It’s a Girl!

HT Daniel Florien. Please note that if this cartoon offends you, you are probably still...

December 15, 2011

The New Testament Scholar Who Stole Christmas?

An op-ed piece I wrote, with the title "The New Testament Scholar Who Stole Christmas?",...

December 14, 2011

Call for Papers: Joss Whedon and Theology

I've been meaning to post this CFP for a while, which appeared on TheoFantastique recently:...

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