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September 2024

September 03, 2024

Are UAP from outer space?

Are UAP from outer space? Yes, according to the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH). Space craft piloted...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Justification of the Doubter

God's grace justifies the doubter as well as the sinner, according to Paul Tillich.

August 27, 2024

Scientizing Ufology

Credentialed scientists are now engaging in UAP studies. Hooray! Even so, some dimenstions to the...

August 08, 2024

Walz and Lutheran Public Theology

Might a future Vice President Tim Walz benefit from deliberating out of a Lutheran Public...

August 06, 2024

Dancing the Lutheran Walz

Dancing the Lutheran Walz will put a smile on our face and a chuckle in...

August 03, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 3

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism does not support Christian Nationalism, to be sure. But it critiques Anti-Christian Nationalism...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 2

Anti-Christian Nationalism warns us against Christian Nationalism. This is a waste of energy. The real...

July 28, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 1

If you can find an actual American Christian Nationalist to interrogate, you'll hear something like...

July 24, 2024

Advice to Kamala Harris. Abortion 6

Democrats defend women's health. Republicans defend the unborn child from conception onward. What about those...

July 21, 2024

Project 2025 on Christian Nationalism

Does Project 2025 pave the road toward an American Christian Nationalist theocracy? Not in the...

July 19, 2024

No Threat of Christian Nationalism

Despite Christians against Christian nationalism warning us to fight the heretical and unpatriotic dragon, we...

July 15, 2024

Trump, Unity, and the Scapegoat

The near death experience of presidential candidate Donald Trump places him at the vortex of...

July 11, 2024

UAP Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis

Even with the revival of the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis (CTH) to explain UAP, it appears that...

July 07, 2024

ChatGPT Theology’s Image of God?

Can we rightly ask that ChatGPT theology's image of God convey divine love, care, and...

July 05, 2024

The Soul as Spiritual Core. Soul 8

Might we develop a secular view of the soul as the spiritual core of a...

July 02, 2024

Are UUs going to Mars?

This past week on Star Island in the Atlantic, IRAS hosted an engrossingly intense conference...

June 2024

June 17, 2024

Ancient Alien Alternative History

Whereas I think the alternative history proposed by so-called ancient astronaut theorists is an attempt...

June 15, 2024

Moltmann, Muslims and Al-Mizan

Jürgen Moltmann along with the Muslims composing Al-Mizan have heard our scientists prophesying planetary ecocide...

June 11, 2024

Mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism

Are Americans mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism? No, not exactly. Religious nationalism in both lands is...

June 05, 2024

Un-Baptizing American Christian Nationalism

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood's new book, "Baptizing America," blames yesterday's mainline Protestants for today's...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

This was a Disgrace! Sin 12

Was this a disgrace? Yes, indeed. But a dis-grace of a special sort. No tone...

May 29, 2024

Against UAP Disclosure?

Since 2017 the movement pressing for government disclosure of UAP documents has picked up avalanche...

May 26, 2024

My Appeal to Heaven on Christian Nationalism

Might we legitimately interpret the pine tree on the "An Appeal to Heaven" flag as...

May 24, 2024

Response to Underwood on Christian Nationalism

Intra-Christian fighting over Christian Nationalism draws attention away from confronting the real existential problem America...

May 23, 2024

Islam on the Trinity? Trinity 3

Muslims fear that the Christian understanding of God as Trinity denies Allah's oneness. Christians commit...

May 21, 2024

UAP Transparency Act?

The UAP Transparency Act of 2024 gives scientific ufologists hope that government revelations will tell...

May 20, 2024

What is Rahner’s Rule? Trinity Part 2

According to Karl Rahner, the econmic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity...

May 18, 2024

Barmen on Christian Nationalism

In 1934, the Nazi hate speech forced the followers of Jesus Christ to make a...

May 14, 2024

ELCA on Christian Nationalism

In the ELCA document, "We Are Christians Against Christian Nationalism," Lutherans reject not only the...

May 13, 2024

What is the Trinity? Part 1

What is the Trinity? Christians believe the one God is complex, enjoying an internal life...