Excellent interview with Terry Eagleton.

Michael Reiss, Anglican priest and scientist (the latter first, it should be added), discusses how he was booted from the Royal Society for not being sufficiently dogmatic about creationists. HT.

Amy Welborn has been blogging from Sicily these past few weeks. Check out her entries for great pictures and insights.

St. Patrick’s First Church This is a just a quick view of what we saw on Inchagoill Island in the middle of Lough Corrib. Flirting with the usual cliches to say so, nevertheless, standing on the very ground where over 1,500 years ago St. Patrick built his first church and laid the grave marker of… Continue reading

John Scalzi, articulating what many writers have been thinking for years now: how utterly pathetic is it that the three major science fiction magazines, Asimov’s, Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction, still don’t accept electronic submissions.HT: Chad Orzel.