Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Why are people sharing the same hallucinations about other-dimensional elves?
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Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono What is the philosophical basis for why you should become more accepting of kooky beliefs?
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TARDIS Talk: “Last Christmas” (December 25, 2014)
- December 31, 2014
- Tagged as: Christmas, Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk
“Last Christmas” is the most ambitious Christmas special Doctor Who has given us. What other adjective adequately describes a holiday entertainment that asks viewers to both disavow belief in Santa Claus and confront their own…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture and 2010: Cosmic Christmas Movies
- December 7, 2014
- Tagged as: 2010, Christmas, Star Trek
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Chances are your choice is self-evident—a seasonal standard like Miracle on 34th Street or A Christmas Story. Not many people would pick either of two science fiction films that debuted…
Recommended Reading: Light upon Light, compiled by Sarah Arthur (Paraclete Press, 2014)
- November 26, 2014
- Tagged as: Advent, Christian Year, Christmas, devotional, Epiphany, literature, prayer, Sarah Arthur
We spend much money, effort, and time in our culture candy-coating the Christmas season with superficially “pretty” things. Colored tree lights, shiny wrapping paper, glitter-covered snowflakes—I think we hope these trappings will distract us from…
Retro Reading for Christmas Eve: “The Silent Night of the Batman” (Batman # 219, February 1970)
- December 24, 2012
- Tagged as: batman, Christmas
I’m hoping to share a lot about Superman with my fellow sci-fi Christians in 2013—but here’s one last Bat-offering for the Dark Knight’s big year, while it’s still 2012, in the spirit of the season! “So…
Recommended Reading: “Inn” by Connie Willis (Feast of the Holy Family)
- December 30, 2011
- Tagged as: Christian Year, Christmas, Connie Willis
By her own admission, multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winning author Connie Willis loves Christmas, especially Christmas stories. She’s been writing them for Asimov’s Science Fiction and other markets since the 1990s (and she recently posted a…
So have you heard about “Alien Nativity” yet? Portland, Oregon artist Matt Henderson installed an illuminated, out-of-this-world-themed manger scene in a former church building this December. Not-so-little green wise men stand guard at the crèche, bearing…
Ask a Batman fan why the Dark Knight is his or her favorite superhero, and you’re likely to hear some variation on this theme: if we wanted to, we could be Batman. Given enough time,…
The Sci-Fi Christian Stocking Stuffer Day 7
- December 23, 2011
- Tagged as: Christmas, The Twilight Zone
How do you celebrate Christmas in the Twilight Zone? Long-time fans of Rod Serling’s classic series will think of “Night of the Meek,” the heartwarming story first broadcast in 1960 (and recently referenced right here…
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