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December 2018

December 01, 2018

Consistent Biblical Literalism, Flat-Earthism, and Slavery

An effort to be consistently literal in one's interpretation of the Bible leads to absurdities....

August 2018

August 05, 2018

Heroically Battling Water-Chaos in the Bible and Beyond

Steve Wiggins wrote another great post about water as a force of chaos in the...

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...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Alternative Heaven

From cartoonist Pat Byrnes. Is any further comment necessary? Is it necessary to point out...

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

David’s Son, David’s Lord

I should probably have looked into this question more than I have up until this...

March 24, 2016

What is the Genesis of this Image?

I've been asked about the original source of the image above, illustrating how people in...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Mythicism: As Unlikely on Earth as it is in Heaven

I recently received a question in a comment on an older post about mythicism, and...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Doctor Who: Heaven Sent

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

November 14, 2015

Is Heaven a Metaphor in the Bible?

There is such a thing as being too rigidly literalistic. But sometimes we fall into...

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...

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...

June 01, 2015

Messing With Absolutists

Today's Non Sequitur. If God is a personal being, then God would have to have...

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 07, 2015

Staring at their Hands in Despair

April 1st's Bizarro is funny, but also problematic. How can people who are engaging in...

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...

March 17, 2015

Survey Says: Not a Chance

ProgressiveChristianity.org shared data from a survey of 500 progressive Christians. I was particularly struck by how...

March 11, 2015

Eternal Darnation

March 04, 2015

Proof of Heaven?

I am delighted to be part of the Patheos book club about Eben Alexander's book,...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Dog Heaven

Marc Cortez shared the above comic about dog heaven. Is it just a bit of...

January 2015

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...

August 2014

August 23, 2014

Doctor Who: Deep Breath

Doctor Who is back, and I'm going to be discussing the details of the first...

August 21, 2014

Heavenly Hierarchy

This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we dived back into the Letter of...

August 12, 2014

If Heaven Exists

July 2014

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 14, 2014

Refuse to Live in Fear

Awkward Moments Children's Bible shared the image above on Facebook, with the following commentary: What...

June 08, 2014

Afterafterlife

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

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