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March 14, 2025

Roger Olson on Neoliberalism and Social Darwinism

When the public theologian attempts to diagnose the disease now plaguing Washington DC, Dr. Roger...

March 01, 2025

Public Sin and the White House Shouting Match

Public Sin Might the concept of public sin aid the public theologian in illuminating the...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

Politics of Revenge

In a Christian Century editorial, Peter W Marty asks a challenging question: how can Christians...

February 20, 2025

Don’t Take the $5000 Bribe

DOGE and the House GOP budget cuts are a smokescreen hiding an elephant sized theft....

February 17, 2025

Big Bang and the Bible: Hyung-Joo Lee

Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Hyung-Joo Lee proposes the principle of "intra-physics...

February 15, 2025

UAP in Science: Robert Powell

Since 2017credentialed scientists have set up progressive research programns to identify UAP (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena)...

February 14, 2025

Trinitarian Big History: Chris Barrigar

Chris Barrigar's Trinitarian Big History agrees with evolutionary theorists that religion has predisposed us to...

February 08, 2025

Paula White and Christian Nationalism

Paula White and Christian Nationalism? Are they connected? No. But some self-rightous progressive Chrstians are...

February 03, 2025

Washington’s Attack on Lutherans

The White House has turned its guns on everyone domestic who sedulously spends money on...

January 2025

January 16, 2025

Working on Science and Religion: Update

Fraser Watts at ISSR offers an update on those Working on Science and Religion. Let's...

January 13, 2025

Demons and UAP in the Pentagon?

The talk of the UAP town is the new book by Luis Elizondo, "Imminent." Elizondo...

December 2024

December 27, 2024

UAP in the Nation of Islam?

A heavenly voice speaking within a UFO abduction experience tells Louis Farrakhan to become the...

December 21, 2024

A UFO for Christmas?

Are space aliens more scientifically and technologically advanced than we on Earth? If so, and...

December 16, 2024

Abundant Life and Death at School

The Abundant Life Christian School witnessed one more devastating event in the history of human...

December 07, 2024

Can AI become demon-possessed?

When we ask whether AI can become possessed by a spirit sent by Satan, we...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

Faith Alone Belongs to the Gospel

I argue against Patheos columnist Dennis Knapp who contends that "justification by faith alone" is...

November 10, 2024

We’re All Gonna Die, Right?

We're all gonna die, right? Millenial singer Jesse Welles terrorizes us with the prospect of...

October 2024

October 30, 2024

UAP, ETI, and David Bohm’s Physics

Scholar ufologist Jensine Andresen makes a coherent case that David Bohm's dialectic between the implicate...

October 26, 2024

End Christian Nationalism

If Amanda Tyler's ideal pluralistic society would be governed by religious freedom, then Christian nationalists...

October 19, 2024

The Public in Public Theology

Who is the 'public' in 'public theology'? We have a nice dialogue to report between...

October 11, 2024

Christian Nationalist Conspiracy Theory

Yes, we can expect the majority of evangelical Christians in America to believe Donald Trump's...

October 05, 2024

What is Comparative Theology?

In celebrating Pastor Charissa Jaeger-Sanders for passing her doctoral examination, we here ask whether comparative...

October 02, 2024

UAP: The Interdimensional Hypothesis

The Interdimensional Hypothesis (ID) suggested by Jacques Vallée, J. Allen Hynek, and John Keel replaces...

September 2024

September 25, 2024

What is Scandinavian Creation Theology?

Scandinavian Creation Theology or SCT does not picture the world as a cold and hostile...

September 20, 2024

Pope Francis vs Jesus as the Only Way, Part 2

In trying to sort out options for interpreting Pope Francis on the world's religions, I...

September 19, 2024

Pope Francis vs Jesus as the Only Way, Part 1

In his Singapore address of September 13, 2024, Pope Francis enunciated the position commonly known...

September 13, 2024

UAP and Ancient Alien Theology

In my exploration of alternative ontologies to explain UAP, Ancient Alien Theology stands up and...

September 12, 2024

Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction: the New Barmen?

Is "Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction" of 2024 the new Barmen Declaration of 1934? The...

September 09, 2024

Are UAP from future time?

The Extratempestrial Hypothesis replaces the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis to explain the origin of UAP. When we...

September 04, 2024

Will I die today in a school shooting?

"Will I die today in a school shooting?" This is the existential questions many of...