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September 2020

September 08, 2020

Upload

As I worked on a book chapter about afterlife and resurrection at the intersection between...

February 2020

February 15, 2020

Musical Hell

I am supervising an honors thesis on the subject of Mandaean views of music past...

February 06, 2020

The End of The Good Place

Now that the finale to the series The Good Place has aired, there is so much...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

BWIYW?

I want to share some thoughts inspired by a recent Sunday school class of mine...

July 2018

July 16, 2018

#CFP The Good Place and Philosophy

Yes! So exciting to see this call for abstracts on the Popular Culture and Philosophy...

January 2018

January 14, 2018

The X-Files: “This”

The second episode of season 11 of the X-Files is simply called "This." There are...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Afterlife Dream

On the night of November 24th-25th I had what may well be the strangest dream...

June 2017

June 18, 2017

Does Ecclesiastes Deny The Afterlife?

I received an e-mail about an older blog post of mine that I linked to...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

A Paulish Mistake in the Mandaean Book of John?

Charles Häberl has started blogging again recently, about the Mandaean Book of John and related texts,...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Rewatching The Black Hole

I just rewatched the science fiction movie The Black Hole, to introduce my son to...

March 2016

March 27, 2016

Easter Sunday School

After I shared my last Sunday school class session about ideas of the afterlife in the Jewish...

March 21, 2016

The History of Afterlife in Sunday School

I've mentioned my Sunday school class at Crooked Creek Baptist Church on this blog on...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Hell in Sunday School

My Sunday school class, at the request of one participant, recently ended up discussing first...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Doctor Who: Heaven Sent

This episode begins with a monologue about the sense of life being lived in constant...

August 2015

August 09, 2015

Do All Creatures Go To Heaven?

Too often people accept concepts and ideas without ever taking the time to think through...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Chappie

I recently watched the movie Chappie. It poignantly conveys a point that I also sought...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

The Hand on the Mirror

I confess that when I was included in the book club discussing Janis Durham's book...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

LOST Rewatch: The End

Rewatching LOST from the beginning has been an interesting experience. We have to go back...

April 16, 2015

Wow Factor

Today's Non Sequitur. One of life's mysteries is where the missing socks go. But apparently...

April 15, 2015

LOST Rewatch: What Kate Does

The episode begins with the fact that Sayid died and now is alive. Sawyer sarcastically...

April 14, 2015

LOST Rewatch: LAX

The first episode of the final season of LOST begins with reminders of last season,...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

The Concept of Heaven

I am pretty skeptical of ideas of an afterlife. So is one of the characters in...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

I Love Heresy

The title of this post refers to the class called "Heresy," which I am teaching this...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Prophetic Blizzard

I had students reading some of the Hebrew prophets recently. I pointed out to them...

January 21, 2015

Attractive Afterlife?

This Far Left Side cartoon makes an important point. Not only have many religions come...

November 2014

November 01, 2014

Doctor Who: Dark Water

What an amazing episode of Doctor Who "Dark Water" is. It starts with Clara speaking...

July 2014

July 19, 2014

Worried to Death

July 07, 2014

This-Worldly Christianity

“Isn’t it odd? Christians created a theological scenario that placed the soul of every person...

June 2014

June 21, 2014

Where We’re Spending August

Another funny New Yorker cartoon. But it shows the problems with imaginging an afterlife. Do...

June 08, 2014

Afterafterlife

Hemant Mehta shared the above video, which pokes fun at many of the arguments for...

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