How did things go this week? Did Splendid Sun take the Zeitgeist Prize this week, as I predicted? Click onward, dear Reader, and all shall be revealed.

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Finally, here’s The Bloggernacle Times issue you can write home to Mom about. This week, we cover everything from the Big Bang to infinity, from the Pope to the Bard, from the weekly Zeitgeist to the annual Pulitzer. We are especially pleased to offer a fine guest post from Rosalynde, Do Stories Matter? Act 1, with Act 2 to follow in a couple of weeks. Enjoy!

Ways of Knowing II by Clark Goble
Trapped by the Christians by Ronan JH
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Justin Butterfield
Bloggernacle A&E by William Morris
Weekly Zeitgeist by Steve
The Last Word by Dave

I’m profiling an interesting LDS blog every week (or other faith blog if the Mormon well comes up dry). Up this week: Viva Ned Flanders. First observation: it’s green. Green blogs are a self-confident bunch, a sort of in-your-face declaration: I’m here and I’m green. Live with it. No attempt here to choose soft pastel colors or find hues that match. No, green blogs mean business. They have something worth saying, dammit, and they’ll say it in green. If you don’t like it, go slither off to some namby-pamby color-coordinated blog in deep blue, rust orange, or saddle bag tan.
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Last week I went over, in a longish post, the similarities and differences between Mormon religious ways of knowledge and science. There were some excellent comments made to the post as well that are worth reading. This week I want to continue the idea, only with a suggestion for improvement – perhaps to both disciplines.

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Justin’s post about the remake of Trapped by the Mormons (from the people who brought you Cannibal Cheerleaders on Crack) reminded me of a discussion we had this week in the New Testament class that I teach. We were talking about early Christian persecution and I read them Fronto’s denunciation of Christians as perverts and criminals. (Fronto was the tutor of Marcus Aurelius and is quoted in Minicius Felix, Octavius.) Here are the best bits:

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