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August 31, 2024

Star Trek Discovery Finale: Progenitors All The Way Down

You probably remember how, during the first season of Star Trek: Discovery, the news circulated...

October 2023

October 23, 2023

There’s Always a Catch With These God Stories

I have been working on rectifying one of the gaps in my Star Trek viewing....

June 2022

June 13, 2022

What Is God? G’Kar’s Answer

I have been watching Babylon 5 and wanted to share this wonderful segment in episode...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

Interview with Mike Austin, author of God and Guns in America

I had the opportunity to interview Mike Austin about his book God and Guns in America....

January 2021

January 05, 2021

Tenet

As soon as I saw Tenet, I knew it was a movie that I would...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

Is It Reasonable To Believe In God?

Here are some thoughts I shared for the first time many years ago, after an...

November 17, 2020

ReligionProf Podcast with Tripp Fuller (Divine Self-Investment)

There's a new episode of the ReligionProf Podcast featuring theologian and fellow podcaster Tripp Fuller....

October 2020

October 13, 2020

Trump’s Blasphemies

I feel it necessary to point out how downright blasphemous—not merely offensive to human beings...

January 2020

January 26, 2020

Explaining Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

I recently found myself wondering how one might attempt to explain Star Trek V: The...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

The Bigness of God

I am sure that many people, seeing the title of this post, will think immediately...

September 2019

September 14, 2019

God as Parent

To the extent that the point of this cartoon by David Hayward is that spiritual...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

God, Gods, New Edens, and Imperfect Saints on Star Trek: Discovery and Beyond

Another book chapter that I finished a draft of this summer is about gods in...

February 2019

February 10, 2019

Batman v. Superman (= Lex Luthor v. God)

It was quite a while back that I watched Batman vs. Superman. But I have...

January 2019

January 16, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Thomas Jay Oord

This week's podcast features Thomas Jay Oord. His latest book is called God Can't, and...

January 05, 2019

Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

Before I dive into this episode from the Tom Baker era, let me draw attention...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

Timeless God

I enjoyed the television show Timeless immensely ever since it first started, and now that...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Big Answers to the Brief Questions

I've been seeing lots of mentions of Stephen Hawking's posthumously-published book, Brief Answers to the Big...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

Westworld and Religion

Somehow I've managed not to blog about Westworld, despite having found both seasons incredibly engaging,...

June 21, 2018

A Wrinkle in the Expanse

I finally got to see the movie version of A Wrinkle In Time recently, and it...

June 20, 2018

Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred

I still recall when I first spotted a first very early mention of Richard Grigg's...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Why I Am a Panentheist

A friend of mine noticed that I mentioned in passing that I hold to a...

January 2018

January 21, 2018

Describing the Indescribable

Emma Higgs has been continuing her excellent blog series, Faith in the Fog. Here is...

January 06, 2018

Can an AI Write a Better Bible?

The author of a recent article was much more impressed than I was with an AI's vaguely...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Making Monotheism

A number of posts around the blogosphere have touched on this topic that has long...

December 07, 2017

Darkest Hour

I was delighted to have the opportunity to see the new movie Darkest Hour before...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

A.I. Am

Brandon Withrow has a new article out, about “The New Religions Obsessed with A.I.” It includes...

October 06, 2017

Romania the Outlier

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about visiting Transylvania, here's another bit of information that shows...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

Iesus Deus

I have been meaning to blog for a while about David Litwa's book Iesus Deus. It offers...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Humans

I wasn't sure when I started watching it if I was going to blog about...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

Mutant in the Armor of God

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