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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 10, 2020

False Prophets and Conspiracy Theories

It is important to emphasize that there are a lot of different kinds of Christianity...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

Octavia Butler the Prophet

As I prepare to teach my class on Religion and Science Fiction again, I've been...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

What Does The Bible Say About Coronavirus?

Coronavirus. Covid-19. SARS. Pandemic. Many people are troubled by events that are unprecedented in their...

January 2020

January 09, 2020

Trump as Antichrist

There have been a lot of discussion on blogs and elsewhere online about the possibility...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Science Fiction and Prophecy

Having written about science fiction as prophecy here not long ago, I was struck by...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

Life and Tech

Someone said to me recently that they are not sure that we are happier with...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

Not The Messiah You Ordered?

If you thought the sausage roll in the manger in Greggs’ advertising was controversial, I...

October 2017

October 02, 2017

How Star Wars Ends

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

June 2017

June 25, 2017

Is Science Fiction Prophecy? Is Prophecy Science Fiction?

One of the questions I posed in my class on religion and science fiction last...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Donald Trump Fulfills Prophecy

Last Sunday in my Sunday school class, I confess that I poked fun at the...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

Prophetic Word Conference: Poetry, Theology, and Philosophy in Dialogue

September 2016

September 01, 2016

So That’s What those Prophecies Mean

How will the world end? It will be issued in by the "Trump of God."...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Chronicles as Evidence for Deutero-Isaiah

Today my class on the Bible focused on stories from among the Writings, the third...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Rachel Weeping at Christmas

Someone left a comment on an old blog post I shared on Facebook, saying they...

December 05, 2015

Doctor Who: Hell Bent

"Hell Bent" was a nice season finale for what has been, I would say, the...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar

I apologize for not blogging about "The Witch's Familiar" sooner - it was airing while I was traveling...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Proof These Are The Last Days?

This came my way via Facebook, and I thought I would share it here. I appreciate...

July 09, 2015

The Prophets of Our Time

We had an interesting discussion of prophecy in my Sunday school class recently, as we...

June 2015

June 01, 2015

Prophets of the Technological Future

I had been meaning to blog about the movie Ex Machina for a while now....

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Prophetic Blizzard

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

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Exegesis as Reading

The Patrologist recently blogged about exegesis as reading, warning about two extremes - the tendency to...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Predicting the Future

I love this cartoon from the New Yorker. This is precisely the problem with predictive...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Unleash the Beast

An online post has suggested that Monster Energy Drink - with its slogan "Unleash the...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

Agog About Gog

Mike Skinner wrote a post about the end-times prophecy approach to the Bible, and the...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

Doomsday Perspectives

Today's Non Sequitur illustrates a useful point. Doomsday predictions are in the eyes of the...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Literalism upon Literalism

This is a literalistic depiction of a literalistic understanding of Matthew 21:7, which reflects the...

September 2013

September 15, 2013

Syria and the End Times

Hemant Mehta shared some interesting statistics and infographics about what Americans think about Syria, and...

June 2013

June 05, 2013

Paul vs. His Modern Inerrantist Interpreters

There is an interesting contrast between the way Paul wrote about the content of his...

March 2013

March 24, 2013

Authorship of Isaiah

My course on the Bible focuses a lot of attention on the identification and use...

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