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July 09, 2024

Ageism, Character, and the 2024 Presidential Election

President Biden's performance in the 2024 presidential debate was disappointing, but I would like to...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

When Prophecy Failed: QAnon in Light of Sociology of Religion

While some political commentators and journalists are wondering what will happen as a result of...

November 2020

November 13, 2020

Embarrassing Christians Embarrassing Christianity

I feel such a sense of deep dismay and disappointment as I scroll on Facebook...

October 2020

October 07, 2020

Bullying Presidents and Pastors

When I saw the article below on 3 Quarks Daily, I thought it was time...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

A Perfect President and His Christian Supporters

Today I feature a guest post from my friend Sam Friedberg. He wrote a response...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Christian Theological Seminary’s New President:

News not from Butler University per se, but from Christian Theological Seminary, which is located...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Would and Wouldn’t, Can and Can’t, Should and Shouldn’t

Cristoph Heilig shared an experience of embarrassingly saying "should" when he meant "should not." We...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of the World

The episode begins with the Secretary General of the UN coming to Bill Potts looking...

May 02, 2017

Harder Than I Thought

This morning the two recent statements by president Donald Trump coalesced in my mind into...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Alt-Jesus

This sign seems like a nice complement to the political cartoon I shared yesterday. The...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

America’s Choice: Table or Wall?

I expect you have heard the saying above before. Indeed, I suspect that I may...

January 31, 2017

AAR and IQSA Statements about Executive Order

Two more major academic organizations have issued statements. I had begun working on one as co-chair...

January 30, 2017

Academics Against the Immigration Ban

There is a petition that all academics are invited to become signatories of: I have submitted...

January 29, 2017

Biblical Scholars Stand With Refugees

If it has been disheartening to see the actions of America's president and his supporters,...

January 16, 2017

Donald Trump’s Inauguration: The Twilight Zone Returns

This appeared in the Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide yesterday:

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Singing Psalm 109

Psalm 109:8 got significant attention in recent years as Sen. David Perdue used it as...

November 10, 2016

Which Sci-Fi Dystopia Are You Living In?

To help with processing the election results, we connected them to a discussion (in my...

November 09, 2016

The Election Wasn’t Rigged. Now What?

I had hoped to be writing a very different blog post this morning. But the...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Perspectives from Science and Science Fiction

This election has witnessed a lot of firsts. Most recent, as of my writing this,...

October 04, 2016

Elaine Pagels Honored by President Barack Obama

The video above includes video footage of Elaine Pagels receiving a National Humanities Medal for...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Would You Vote for a Machine for President?

Sometimes my class on Religion and Science Fiction seems to be incredibly practical, despite the...

August 2016

August 20, 2016

Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

The Invasion of Time is a true classic of the Tom Baker era. It is...

August 03, 2016

SNTS: Prayers and Presidential Address

One fascinating aspect of SNTS is the extent to which, because it is a European...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

Rabbis in Space

The Times of Israel has an article about the volume I contributed to, Touching the Face...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Don’t Be Like Jerry

Zack Hunt shared the above image on Facebook. I have not had any real interest...

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 07, 2015

Obama’s Texas Invasion Plans Revealed

Greg Carey made this image and shared it on Twitter, and a lot of people have found...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

President Obama’s Apology

I saw an image today on Facebook (included here on the right), indicating that there...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Does IU Have the Legal Right to Prohibit Discimination?

I was proud when I read the statement by Butler University's president Jim Danko about...

March 18, 2015

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

The Doctor Who episode The Deadly Assassin offered another glimpse of the Doctor's home planet,...

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