Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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Related to the last two posts, here’s a short video by Denis Alexander of the Faraday Institute on two reasons Christians have underdeveloped theologies of creation. See: Denis Alexander on Understanding Creation Theology | The BioLogos Forum.
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Interesting survey on science, religion and origins out of MIT/Boston University over at The MIT Survey on Science, Religion and Origins: the Belief Gap . The opening paragraph on the web page with the survey (and PDF version of the longer paper) says: We present a detailed survey of how different US faith communities view…
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A post I wrote last week for the School of Theology blog (Auckland Theology, Biblical Studies, et al.). See Science, Religion, Media & God (Part 1) | Auckland Theology, Biblical Studies, et al. Science, Religion, Media & God (Part 1) Science and religion are often portrayed in conflict with each other. In one corner we…
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A while back I put together a short piece for the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies Scholar’s Top 5 series. Scholar’s Top 5: Stephen Garner on Technological Narratives of Salvation | Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies. Related to that is the recent post by transhumanist George Dvorsky…
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Have decided to try out Scrivener to get the writing back on track. So a week or two of trying things out while I write my conference paper ‘Divine Demons and Demonic Angels: Biblical Afterlives and the Inversion of Good and Evil in Contemporary Popular Culture’ I’m hoping this will help get me up to…
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A recent list of some blogs focusing on church technology – may get my religion and media class to have a look at them in a week or two’s time. ChurchMag’s 2012 Top 20 Church Technology Blogs | ChurchMag
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Short piece asking questions about the questions polls use when surveying views on religion and evolution. See Evolving Gallup’s Poll on Evolution.
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I like short films, and especially short science fiction films that unpack a particular question or theme (for example, the original short version of ‘9’), so I was interested to see this engaging trailer for a short film called ‘True Skin’ exploring the human technological augmentation and being wrapped in media: See the video trailer…
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The podcast of Stephen May’s TANSA talk “Modernism and posthumanity in science fiction: the case of Iain M. Banks” from last Friday is now available at http://archive.org/details/NotPostmodernismButPosthumanityIainM.BanksScienceFictionAnd.
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Special TANSA meeting on Friday April 13th Modernism and posthumanity in science fiction: the case of Iain M. Banks Speaker is Dr. Stephen May, formerly of St Johns College, back from the UK Laidlaw College, at 7pm Please RSVP to Nicola Hoggard Creegan (NicolaHC [at] laidlaw [dot] ac [dot] nz) if you are coming for…