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August 2026

August 25, 2026

Do You Believe in UFOs? A Theologian’s Answer.

Distinguish science from theology in the Search for ETI. We study astrobiology and UFO/UAP scientifically,...

June 2025

June 26, 2025

Is our free will really in jail?

Neurophilosophy based on neuroscience locks human free will up in a deterministic jail. The way...

April 2025

April 07, 2025

Robert Nicastro on Teilhard de Chardin

Robert Nicastro has just sucessfully defended his Villanova University dissertation on the revolutionary thought of...

March 2025

March 28, 2025

What is Vocation? Ask Sang Pil Yun

Following Karl Barth, Sang Pil Yun argues that the calling of Jesus Christ extends to...

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...

September 2024

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...

July 2024

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...

June 2024

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...

May 2024

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 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 13, 2024

What is the Trinity? Part 1

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

May 01, 2024

Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 5,6: God’s Plan

Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their anger at Donald Trump onto evangelicals...

April 2024

April 27, 2024

Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 3,4: Church-State?

It is said that Christian nationalists want both to keep church and state separate --...

April 13, 2024

God Made Trump. Really?

God Made Trump

April 10, 2024

Trump and Arizona on Abortion: Abortion 5

Here I sin boldly by asking the Democratic Party to (1) maintain support for a...

April 08, 2024

Karen Lebacqz’s Christian Viewpoint on Abortion

Karen Lebacqz's Christian viewpoint on abortion is illuminating. Stop trying to find the point in...

April 04, 2024

A Christian Nationalist Hornets Nest?

The post, "Who is afraid of Christian Nationalism?," stirred up a hornets nest. Let's get...

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...

March 27, 2024

Get Your Trump Bible!

After a Mara Lago meeting with Tik Tok investor Jeff Yass, Mr. Trump endorsed Tik...

March 19, 2024

Paul Lange on Abortion, Abortion 3

Here’s my question: when does the dignity of the unborn child become morally protectable, thereby...

March 17, 2024

Nonreductive Physicalism. Soul 6

Nonreductive physicalism denies that a soul exists in a disembodied form. When it comes to...

March 06, 2024

No Soul? What do materialists say? Soul 4

What do materialists say about the soul? There is no such thing. This is the...

March 01, 2024

Protecting Embryos in the Vatican, Abortion 2

To bolster the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that IVF embryos are children warranting legal protection...

February 2024

February 24, 2024

Body, Soul, and Spirit. Soul 3

How do you like trichotomy? Body, soul, and spirit are three dimensions of one whole...

February 17, 2024

Substance Dualism. Soul 2

Is your soul an immaterial substance that, with a soulechtomy, can be extracted from your...

February 13, 2024

Theologies of the Soul. Soul 1

Let's take a tour through options, through alternative theologices of the soul such as Emergent...

February 01, 2024

Religion and Science Weekend 2024

Religion and Science Weekend, sponsored by the Clergy Letter Project, will be February 9-11, 2024....

January 2024

January 26, 2024

What is Public Systematic Theology? Part Three

What does "public" mean in "public systematic theology? According to Michael Agerbo Morch,the use of...