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The Greatest Monsters and Villains of Doctor Who

As part of the special specials created and leading up to the 50th Anniversary Special on Saturday, November 23rd, viewers were polled and asked to rank the top monsters and villains that have appeared in Doctor Who.  They found as follows:

Tonight! For Monday, October 28, 2013

Tonight brings an absolutely celebrated (by me, anyways) return of an excellent British series, Fresh Meat.  Though, if you don’t live in England, about the only way you’ll be able to watch it is to download it (somehow and someway). But here in the United States, these are on my schedule tonight: At 8:00: How […]

The Highwayman

  When I was a kid (in the 1980’s) I, of course, fell in love with all the cool good guys vs. bad guys mission shows like Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver…. But in my mind I could remember watching one show where there was a semi-truck (tractor-trailer) that turned into a helicopter.  My grandpa […]

These Past Few Days

Anyone who knows me could probably tell you that I am not the most social person, especially with people I don’t know. And a lot of this stems from diagnosed social anxiety, some of it from frustration, and i’ve been told (more than once) that a lot of it is intimidation on their part of […]

Atheism has moved up to third place

Where Atheism Stops And Religion Begins Andrew Schwartz, M Div.Jun 13, 2013 The New Atheists love proclaiming that religion is dying. It’s a claim that is hard to argue with. Religion is certainly on the decline all across the world. The “nones” (i.e. those who hold no religious affiliation) rank as the third most popular […]

Part of a Response to a Question on my Thoughts about the Navy Yard Shooting

I was asked for my thoughts on the mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington. So far, I have one thought….

The Lovely Miss Sara Jean Underwood

And then there’s this…..

How Taxes Might Show That Jesus Would’ve Supported Same-Sex Marriage

Even though that title probably grabbed your attention, and immediate bias, I promise that it wasn’t chosen just for “shock value”, but is the best general way to sum up my thought, and, by the end, whether you agree or not, you’ll understand why it’s the title.   Now, a necessary bit of background: The […]

A “Christian” Nation?

by: Ronald E. Glenn, editor If, despite numerous quotes from the Founding Fathers to the contrary, the United States is a Christian nation, and, though Christianity as it has generally come to be known is more influenced by Paul than anyone else, what Jesus says trumps what Paul says, and what the Bible says Jesus […]

Can Pope Francis Change the Catholic Church?

  September 27, 2013  |  The Nation  / By Frances Kissling “A new pope will change nothing. Not a woman, not an African, not a Latin, not a nice guy. In fact, if anything is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.” So I said at […]

Let’s Face It, Christianity Has Been an Accomplice to More Wars and Genocides Than Any Other Religion

    September 27, 2013  |  Consortium News  / By Gary G. Kohls Like the vast majority of Christian religious leaders of his era, Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation, met the definition of a “Constantinian” Christian, that is a Christian who espoused theological teachings that were tolerant of violence and accepted non-democratic, authoritarian and […]

A Dialogue on the Gospel of Thomas

I (R.e. Glenn a.k.a. The Philosopher Monk) was elated to find myself in a discussion today.  I love them.  Civil, open-minded ones, anyway.  And I decided to post it, and to create a new category in this project that will be called “The Dialogues”.  And, it would seem, this is the first one 

The Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel of Thomas, and the other gnostic gospels that we now have, was discovered in Egypt in 1945, near a town called Nag Hammadi (hence the name Nag Hammadi Library). Of all the Gospels in that collection, Thomas is considered to be the most important one, and some have suggested that it is a […]