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July 2020

July 03, 2020

Enoch Seminar 2020 #OriginsOfEvil2020 Day 4

The Last Day is here. Oh, sorry, I mean the last day is here. The...

July 01, 2020

Enoch Seminar 2020 #OriginsOfEvil2020 Day 2

The second day began with a look back on the first day of the first...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

Enoch Seminar Online 2020: The Origin of Evil in Second Temple Judaism

I am delighted that the Enoch Seminar, a forward-thinking organization by its very nature, was...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

Defining Evil and Unmasking Monsters

I find myself really challenged by something Mike Duncan wrote on his blog Bad Rhetoric...

October 02, 2017

How Star Wars Ends

Mitchell Dostine believes that we already know how Star Wars will end (assuming that there...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

Evil and God

I had a wonderful conversation recently with a student, which touched on a number of...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Was God Good Before Creation?

Yesterday I discussed one attempted solution to the problem of evil that students wrestled with,...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

SNTS: Simultaneous Short Papers

The last afternoon of the SNTS conference was dedicated to simultaneous short papers. The first...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

The Theology and Ethics of Star Wars

The above discussion of theology and ethics in Star Wars at Conway Hall includes Biblical...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

Superman Takes Sociology

I love this. I hope that the experience of students is that, early on, we problematize...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

Admiring Darth Vader

There has been a lot of discussion and speculation about The Force Awakens related to Kylo...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

The Tao of Star Wars

Mike Chen wrote an article recently in defense of the Star Wars prequels. The second...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

Recognizing Evil

This meme came to my attention on Facebook, and of course I had to share...

June 2015

June 21, 2015

Love is a Promise (in 1 Corinthians 13 and Doctor Who)

This image comes from the blog Whovian Theology. I had been meaning to share it...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Pure Evil

Via Yuriy Stasyuk on Facebook. This is a clear violation of the Golden Rule. Treat...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

LOST Rewatch: Across the Sea

This episode tells the backstory of Jacob and his brother as their pregnant mother is...

April 22, 2015

Religion in the Multiverse

IO9 recently shared a list of the nine weirdest implications of the many worlds viewpoint....

April 01, 2015

Complicit in Evil

  The quote comes from a recent post of mine, and when a commenter said...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Perpetuating Injustice

The quote comes from a video by Hip-Hop radio show host Jay Smooth, which was...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Genesis 3 Paradox

Yuriy Stasyuk made the meme above, to highlight the apparent paradox in Genesis 3. If...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

No Good Without Evil?

My students recently submitted assignments on the problem of evil. The reading on this topic...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Evolution is Not the Problem

It frustrates me that any religious believer thinks that evolution is somehow at odds with...

May 2013

May 04, 2013

Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror

"The Crimson Horror" brings together a team of characters to tackle a somewhat stereotypical evil,...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

The Dark Knight Rises

I recently watched the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. It offers an interesting exploration of...

September 2012

September 08, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Believe That Creation Was Finished in Six Days

I have been having an interesting conversation on Facebook with someone who describes himself as...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

This Doctor Who episode from the Jon Pertwee era, "The Mind of Evil," offers interesting...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

How to Spot the Secret Atheist Handshake

Jim West often has a bee in his bonnet about atheists, but he doesn't always...

February 2012

February 17, 2012

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

This Doctor Who episode about the Daleks was apparently envisaged as providing an end and...

January 2012

January 10, 2012

Doctor Who: Enlightenment

"Enlightenment" is the third and final episode in the Black Guardian trilogy, and another of...

January 01, 2012

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

The episode "Time-Flight" from the Peter Davison era makes brief mention of the tragic death...

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