Was I trolling for hits with that title? Perhaps. Since I have not had time to read (let alone post) any comics you can imagine that I have not really been able to keep up with all the news regarding Rob Bell’s new book and the hoopla regarding universalism. I […]
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My brother pointed me to this post at John C. Dvorak’s site. According to JD This was a leading entry in PepsiCo’s Super Bowl commercial contest. When word leaked out about it, the Catholic Church went bananas. Pepsi has been trying to squash every occurrence of it on the Web; […]
I have been thinking about the future of Jerusalem as part of a project for my class on leadership and critical thinking. I will share that another time, but I came across this video on Wired.com. Working out their own variation on the politically charged sci-fi subgenre pioneered by District 9, […]
The Jerusalem Post (in a section that is in this instance oddly titled “Iranian Threat”) reports that Google Earth images reveal that the Iran Air headquarters has a Star of David on its roof. The building was built prior to the revolution by Israeli engineers and the Jewish symbol has […]
I am just not sure what to make of this. I am strongly in support of civil rights and equality and against discrimination but this… Well, you tell me, what do you think? A civil rights complaint has been filed against a woman in Grand Rapids, Mich., who posted an […]
While most of my readers know that the Book of Kells is a gorgeously illuminated book of the Gospels, you know, those stories about JC and the Boyz, apparently the people who made the movie The Secret of the Kells felt all that was irrelevant. You may have already seen […]
There is some promise. See the story in today’s Inside Higher Ed. Scientists Get Religion June 17, 2010 WASHINGTON – Jennifer Wiseman is an astrophysicist and a Christian. Both of those elements will come into play in her new role with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where […]
It is a reference to Stephen Jay Gould’s excellent article (which you should read if you haven’t, for no other reason than that Dawkins hates it) but it was this cartoon1 that brought it to mind. That and I happened to have a meeting this morning on a lecture series […]
I remember learning about the saints and the various grisly means of their demise, including modern saints who died for their faith, and praying that God would give me that kind of strength because I was sure I would never be able to endure such trials. What was your greatest […]
This cartoon is an image from an ad for a comic (in fact, one that I don’t really read). I have seen the ad numerous times and always thought it was amusing. Which do you think would be harder? For those who cannot see the image the dialogue is simply: […]