Maybe you’ve heard: Santa’s been under siege this year. Both a TV news anchor in Chicago to a New York elementary school teacher recently suggested that Santa’s not real, landing them on a lot of…
Today is Saint Andrew’s Day, the national holiday of Scotland. Andrew was the first disciple to bring another person to Jesus: he told his brother, Simon Peter, “We have found the Messiah” (John 1.41). According…
Great authors of fiction set in alternate worlds: Murray Leinster… Harry Turtledove… and Charlotte Brontë. Next month, Sotheby’s London will put on the auction block a manuscript the future author of Jane Eyre (1847) penned while…
On a couple of recent editions of the podcast, Matt and I have debated the role of subjectivity and objectivity in judging greatness in art. Matt holds that it’s impossible to determine greatness objectively, while…
Halloween is over, but, on the Christian calendar, today is special, too. Since the ninth century, western Christians have observed November 1 as All Saints’ Day (or “All Hallows’ Day,” making October 31 “All Hallows’…
Halloween and I have a complicated past. As a kid growing up in a Christian home, my family was one that believed it was best not to celebrate Halloween in the traditional sense. So still,…
If you’re looking forward to director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit (I know I am), you likely already know that Evangeline Lilly, late of Lost, has been cast as an elf named Tauriel, a…
Not unlike “the hour” of which Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, the start of another academic year “cometh, and now is” (John 4.23, KJV). Whether the first school bells near you ring…
It’s the science fiction and fantasy equivalent of the Oscars: the Hugo Awards, named for legendary pulp sf editor Hugo Gernsback, often hailed as “the father of science fiction” (even though he himself called the…
Like moths to the flame, tribbles to the quadrotriticale, or sandworms to a Fremen thumper, we science fiction and fantasy fans are irresistibly drawn to “best of” lists. So NPR’s list of the “Top 100…
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