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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...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Justification of the Doubter

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

July 2024

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...

March 2024

March 30, 2024

Digital Immortality or Bodily Resurrection?

Digital immortality or cybernetic immortality via whole brain emulation is what transhumanists offer us. We...

January 2023

January 14, 2023

Are the Bible and Big Bang Consonant?

Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Yes. The notion of Time=0 may not...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

Did I lose my inborn sense of God to Atheism?

Our inborn sensus divinitatis touted by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher seems to be threatened...

November 08, 2022

Did I lose my free will to Science?

The neuro-determinists want to steal our free will and fence it to our brains. Are...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Prebunking Disinformation

To fight truth decay, I prescribe debunking disinformation. I propose an alliance including scientists, skeptics,...

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

After comparing models of creation in Big Bang cosmology, the multiverse, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian mythology,...

August 08, 2022

What is Theological Methodology?

When interpreting the Bible for the contemporary context, each systematic theologian must justify the method...

August 01, 2022

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part Two

Public theologians looking for truth should embrace genuine science but eschew scientism, the materialist ideology.

July 2022

July 01, 2022

What is Truth?

Every searching soul welcomes truth whenever an event of unconcealment makes something invisible visible. Scientific...

June 2022

June 06, 2022

Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson

Quantum theology can rely on either the Copenhagen indeterminist or Bohmian determinist interpretation of quantum...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

Robert John Russell: In Celebration

Robert John Russell's retirement May 19, 2022 marks a major transition in the field of...

April 2022

April 03, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 8: UU? Yes

Like siblings born to Enlightenment parents, both Unitarian Universalism and transhumanism inherited a reliance on...

March 2022

March 16, 2022

The Copernican Principle and Cosmic Consciousness

The Copernican Principle allegedly decenters and demotes human self-importance, but it fails to hammer down...

March 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 4. Evangelical? Yes

The Christian Transhumanist Association under the leadership of Micah Redding marries technology with faith to...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

Short Prayers 20: Wild

God of creation and promised redemption, help us to honor yet be realistic about our...

February 23, 2022

Short Prayers 13: Faith

Unsearchable, invisible, God only wise, give us the faith of your children. Amen.

February 06, 2022

Sin 7: The True Story of Satanic Panic

Is Satan back? Or, perhaps better, is Satanism back? Might we label the 2020’s: Satanic...

January 2022

January 29, 2022

Evolution Weekend and Science Sunday

It’s Evolution Weekend in Lab and Pew. I belong to a group called the Clergy...

January 02, 2022

What is Epiphany?

What is Epiphany? Oh, yes, the three wise men on camels show up at Jesus’...