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  • 6 days ago | patheos.com | James McGrath

    After a serious spoiler warning to hopefully send anyone who wants to avoid spoilers running for their lives and averting their gaze, I begin this post with the biggest mystery of the episode but by no means the only one, namely whether the credits saying “Introducing Billie Piper” is significant and if so in what way.

  • 1 week ago | patheos.com | James McGrath

    It is hard to say that any Doctor Who episode with a seemingly one-off villain or mystery stands out as worthy of revisiting, yet I suspect that if fans had been polled, the episode “Midnight” would have been chosen by many. Even if that is not the case, it was certainly a memorable episode, and so the episode “The Well” was particularly engaging to fans who have been watching for at least since the David Tennant era.

  • 1 week ago | patheos.com | James McGrath

    It is strange to be commemorating those who lost their lives opposing tyranny as the nation veers increasingly into autocracy. I have been thinking a lot recently about Romania, having lived there for three years and visited many times before and since then. It is the country with a recent history of dictatorship in which I have spent the most time.

  • 4 weeks ago | patheos.com | James McGrath

    The Story and the Engine is the latest episode of Doctor Who, and I’m once again exploring the episodes of this season out of order. Perhaps a better way to put it, given the focus of this episode, is to say that I’m not sticking to the narrative sequence of the story. As always, when an episode engages with religion, it gets my attention and calls out for commentary.

  • 1 month ago | patheos.com | James McGrath

    It has been a privilege to get to know filmmaker Sarey Martin Concepción through Theology Beer Camp. At TBC last year in October, I got to see a trailer for Sarey’s movie “The Winemaker” which I now just recently had the privilege of seeing at the Indy Film Festival this year, held at the Kan Kan theater. The latter is such a cool local venue. I need to get there more often and find out more about what sorts of things I can see there.

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James F. McGrath
James F. McGrath @ReligionProf
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James F. McGrath
James F. McGrath @ReligionProf
28 May 25

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James F. McGrath
James F. McGrath @ReligionProf
28 May 25

New Testament job at St. Andrews https://t.co/UWOIf2Y0ri