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• The Skinny on Asherah

  

  After being removed from academia, my work on Asherah started to receive notice.  You see, I’m not part of some academic dynasty and I never landed that... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Early Halloween

  

  Call it seasonal disorientation syndrome, but I’ve been reading about Halloween. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one thinking about it. Stores will begin... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What You Can’t Show

  

  As I spend my life trying to figure out why I do what I do, I take book and movie recommendations. I really should note who recommends what because it often... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Small Hops

  

  It was about the cutest thing I’d seen in a month of Saturdays—a baby rabbit.  It was no bigger than my fist and it was looking lost on the sidewalk. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Next Gen AI, Truly

  

  Okay, so it was a scary meeting.  It was about AI—artificial intelligence.  Specifically Generative IA.  That’s the kind that makes up answers to questions put... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Movies About Movies

  

  The category of movies so bad that they’re good sometimes spawns the phenomenon of a movie about the bad movie. The Room, generally on the list of worst movies... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bad Movie Therapy

  

  I haven’t see Troll, but it doesn’t matter. Troll 2 has nothing to do with it. As a frequent contender for worst movie of all time, Troll 2 is an anti-vegetaria... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Ology

  

  It’s good to refresh yourself once in a while. I attended a Calvinist college and my doctoral program was in the context of an institution strongly influenced b... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thinking Power

  

  Thoughts are powerful.  An idea can change everything.  While materialism tells us that thoughts are only electro-chemical signals in an organic mass of... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hoppy Fourth

  

  Today is the one of the relatively rare summer holidays. Modern industrialized nations tend to take a more relaxed view toward summers without having to give ou... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Private Therapy

  

  A friend recently introduced me to the YouTube channel, Cinema Therapy. While I had some vague notions already that cinema therapy was “a thing,” I had never... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good-Bad

  

  If anybody bothers to follow my movie viewing history, they’ll know that it includes a perhaps disproportionate number of “bad movies.” In fact, I recently adde... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Out of Season

  

  Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz, has been a fixture since the early eighties. I was a bit too old for Scholastic at the time, but my... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All Connected

  

  The physical world is interconnected.  It’s not the only world, I’m convinced (there’s simply too much evidence that it’s not), but it’s certainly entangled. ... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Release the Wicker

  

  One of the many fascinating things about The Wicker Man is that even its release date can cause confusion. There should be nothing so simple as to look up when ... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sleepy and Hollow

  

  There’s a kind of charm to Chronicles. I don’t mean the biblical book, but rather Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, a book published in the 1890s by... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feathers and Flight

  

  Bird identification must be one of the trickiest activities known to humankind.  My office window overlooks a small segment of a porch roof that is popular... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Employment Opportunities

  

  It’s important to be reminded that stories can also be told by what’s not said. Non-narrative fiction can be a little tricky to follow, but often contains... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Meeting Places

  

  It’s one of those quirky British television plays that’s its own movie. It was part of the Play for Today series. I turned to Penda’s Fen after receiving some... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Liking Everyone

  

  I’m not really interested in politics. Powerful people deciding the fate of the rest of us seems inherently depressing. We could use a good laugh. I’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY