Gary Bates has written a lengthy review of The Fourth Kind. If you haven't seen the movie yet and care about reading spoilers, you may want to defer reading the review. If you have no time at all for a spiritual explanation for alien abduction, you won't want to read...
Culture & Movies
Promethean PaleoBabble
Hat tip to Jason Colavito for this link to a Salon.com piece on Ridley Scott's new movie. When you click through, take note of the titling of the URL itself: "dazzling dumb-ass theology." What a perfect, poetic description of the film and the ideas it conveys. Can't...
Gerber's Baby Christian Food
A friend sent me the image below. I loved it and thought it was worth sharing for a good laugh (or cry). I don't know anything about sacredsandwich.com (see the stamp in the lower right corner). Seems like a good-natured site satirizing Christianity (i.e., it's not...
Something Different: Wayfarer
Something different indeed. I don't usually blog about anything but biblical studies here, but I'm making an exception for Wayfarer, a band in Seattle about which I just learned a couple weeks ago. I was contacted by Dan Koch, the leader of the band, about what they...
Jesus and Twitter
Thanks to Martin for sending this to me. Thought it was clever and funny:
New SBL/NEH Survey on the Bible
I received the following announcement today from SBL (Society of Biblical Literature): The SBL has received an NEH planning grant to develop a website, "The World of the Bible: exploring people, places, and passages." The site is intended for general audiences and...