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In the 2,800-person village of Shingō in Japan's Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn't know that Jesus escaped crucifixion and emigrated to northern Japan to become a rice farmer?

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What would the discovery of an alien civilization mean for the most basic tenets of Christianity? This question was explored last Saturday at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando, Florida. More »
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By the 1700s, there could no longer be any doubt. Earth was just one of many worlds orbiting the Sun, which forced scientists and theologians alike to ponder a tricky question. Would God really have bothered to create empty worlds? More »
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This is one of the odder photos I took at Comic-Con. I had paused to take a picture of the Justice League, when a nearby messiah wandered into the shot. My prediction? Biblical cosplay = so hot in 2011. More »
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SF writer Lavie Tidhar has just published the first installments of his online serial "Jesus & The Eightfold Path," which imagines what would have happened if the "three wise men" of the New Testament nativity story had actually been Buddhists. More »
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The back cover of my copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz calls it "a novel that transcends genre." But if you wanna get technical, the 1961 Hugo winner is almost the antithesis of science fiction. More »
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Science may not be able to prove the existence of God, but brain scans on human subjects praying can definitely prove that people who talk to God like him/her/it a lot, apparently. More »
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In The Christian Science Monitor, Michael Spencer predicts a massive collapse of evangelical Christianity within ten years. "Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants." And it gets worse. More »
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Is Star Trek one of the last hold-overs of a Godless science fiction that's slowly dying off and being replaced by an SF where spirituality is one of the main themes? That's one of the theories put forward by physicist and pastor George Murphy in his lecture Real Faith and Fictional Worlds, part of Calvin College's "Christian Perspectives in Science" series of lectures. More »
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The Left Behind books (and movies) are one of the most popular edge-cases in the science fiction world. They're shunned by many SF fans as too cheesily religious, yet embraced by zillions of Christians who made this many-volumed tale of the Rapture and Armageddon into bestsellers. They're an odd anomaly hovering between great apocalypse scifi and Great Apocalypse from The Bible. Left Behind the movie is actually pretty good B-movie scifi fare, and you can see in our clip that the spooky Rapture scene on a plane feels pretty much like the opening of an alien abduction flick. Plus, Left Behind is only one of many other stories where the work of angels looks basically like the work of aliens. We've got a list of five kickass alien angels for you right here. More »
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