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Religion in the Multiverse
IO9 recently shared a list of the nine weirdest implications of the many worlds viewpoint. One is that you are, in essence, immortal. I’ve blogged before about ways that parallel universes might...
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LOST Rewatch: Across the Sea
This episode tells the backstory of Jacob and his brother as their pregnant mother is in a shipwreck and finds herself on the island. A woman finds her and they speak in Latin. The pregnant woman is...
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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 a while back, and it ended up as a saved draft. But recently we discussed 1 Corinthians 13 in my Sunday school class, and...
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Recognizing Evil
This meme came to my attention on Facebook, and of course I had to share it, since it explores the intersection of Star Wars and Christianity.In Star Wars, the original plan was for lightsabers to all...
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The Tao of Star Wars
Mike Chen wrote an article recently in defense of the Star Wars prequels. The second point on the list of things he appreciates about them is the moral ambiguity, the introduction of more in the way of...
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Admiring Darth Vader
There has been a lot of discussion and speculation about The Force Awakens related to Kylo Ren’s admiration for his grandfather, Darth Vader, and his fear that he will never be as strong as he was.I...
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The Theology and Ethics of Star Wars
Click here to view the embedded video.The above discussion of theology and ethics in Star Wars at Conway Hall includes Biblical scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou. It uses LEGO Star Wars images,...
View ArticleSuperman Takes Sociology
I love this. I hope that the experience of students is that, early on, we problematize simplistic ideas of good vs. evil, but also that by the end of their studies, we have helped them identify the...
View ArticleWas God Good Before Creation?
Yesterday I discussed one attempted solution to the problem of evil that students wrestled with, taking J. L. Mackie’s classic article, “Evil and Omnipotence,” as their starting point, together with...
View ArticleHow Star Wars Ends
Mitchell Dostine believes that we already know how Star Wars will end (assuming that there is an end, and not an endless string of Disney Star Wars movies that simply peters out several centuries from...
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