After changes upon changes...

The Long Spear is a rather nice vid - general tribute to Star Trek as a whole, in the light of the new movie. In general, I'm not a fan of vids with additional sound added to the base song, and at first I really couldn't see why "The Boxer" was an appropriate choice - other than vaguely so for teenie-delinquent-rebootverse-Jim - but then they used the original final verse, which Simon and Garfunkel never recorded, and suddenly everything fell into place...

Somewhat more slick, and an awful lot of fun: Swing, by marycrawford. TOS, ensemble, but with a heavy emphasis on Uhura.

As ithers see us: actual interfaith content (as opposed to ecumenical...)

While I was checking publication dates earlier on, and having temporarily mislaid my copy of... pretty much everything, come to think of it, I stumbled on this review of The Meaning in the Miracles (Jeffrey John) from Masterkey, a Baha'i blogger.

It was remarkably interesting reading. The Meaning in the Miracles is a book I very much admire, partly because I have great sympathy for anyone trying to bridge the gap between academic theology and popular religious writing*, but above all because of John's take on the miracles recorded in the New Testament; rather than getting bogged down in the historicity debate, he argues, we should be looking at their theological meaning. If God, as Christ, does these particular miracles, then what does this tell us about the nature and, for want of a better word, character of God; what do they tell us about the sort of world God's redemption and grace is working towards?

Put like that, it doesn't sound like rocket science;** it's the sort of project that would have made perfect sense to a mediaeval theologian, though they'd have done it in a different form (and, in some cases - though not all of them - drawn different conclusions), because they knew perfectly well that the meaning of Scripture is not confined to the historical level. Which is so obvious that it shouldn't need saying, but people seem to keep forgetting it.

Anyway: Masterkey's review ( is fascinating, because he obviously liked the book a lot too, but for rather different reasons to me )