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October 2022

October 04, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Six: Happy Exchange

Martin Luther's "Happy Exchange" model of atonement is a distinctive variant of the satisfaction and...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Five: Penal Substitution

The Penal Substitution Theory of Atonement is under fire from multiple directions. Here's one direction:...

September 26, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Four: Satisfaction

Anselm's Satisfaction Theory of Atonement gets accused of divine child abuse and other nasties. The...

September 20, 2022

The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part Two

Like a knight in combat, the valiant Sharon Delgado attacks the powers of domination with...

September 19, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat, Part One: The Science

The prospect of no-kill cultivated meat products could spell reduction if not the end of...

September 16, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Three: Christus Victor

Christus Victor--Christ as-our-victorious-champion or Christ as-our-liberator--might be the most dramatic answer to the question: how...

September 12, 2022

The Chaos Machine, Social Media, and Public Theology

According to Max Fisher in "The Chaos Machine," social media greedily alters the way we...

September 08, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Two: Teacher & Moral Influence

Jesus is the True Teacher, an Example, and Moral Influence. Is this how Jesus saves?...

September 06, 2022

Just, Sustainable, Participatory, and Planetary. Common Good Part Five

We need to be guided by a vision of the global common good that will...

August 2022

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

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

August 23, 2022

How does Jesus Save? Part One

The fireworks over Penal Substitution Theory makes us think that atonement itself is at stake....

August 19, 2022

Economism vs Common Good Part Three

Following economist Richard Norgaard and theologian John Cobb, this post analyses the myth of economism...

August 08, 2022

What is Theological Methodology?

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

August 05, 2022

Economism vs Common Good Part Two

Demythicizing economism--our planet's Goliath--is necessary because it is an invisible religious ideology that justifies economic...

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.

August 01, 2022

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part One

I recommend Christians and other religious leaders pledge allegiance to the scientific community. I also...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

Politics vs Common Good Governing, Part One

Washington DC is inundated by politics at a time when we disparately need common good...

July 27, 2022

A Billion Bucks for Bullets and Blood

A US House Committee reports a billion bucks profit for gunmakers. Profit from guns, bullets,...

July 25, 2022

Ecotheology when It’s “Time to Act”

It's time to act. The eco-scientists five decades ago were God's prophets warning us to...

July 19, 2022

Science for the Church? Greg Cootsona

Science for the Church. Greg Cootsona and Ted Peters in dialogue.

July 12, 2022

How to become an Astrotheologian?

Astrotheology reflects on the science of astrobiology on behalf of the galactic common good.

July 04, 2022

A More Compassionate America?

To pursue a more compassionate America, we will need to renounce the Trump tyranny. Thanks...

July 01, 2022

What is Truth?

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

June 2022

June 27, 2022

What is the Gospel?

The gospel is the story of Jesus told with its significance. The significance of Jesus’...

June 24, 2022

Gun Safety Legislation & Prevarication

It is my view that states and even Uncle Sam should prohibit all transfer of...

June 23, 2022

The Public Theology of Jennifer Hockenbery

The Journal of Lutheran Ethics is an offering by public theologian and ethicist, Jennifer Hockenbery,...

June 16, 2022

Is ETI crying wolf?

SETI hears radio signals calling "wolf" when there is no wolf. But, keep hope alive...

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 14. Is it Scientific?

Religious transhumanism does not pass the scientific test. Nor the religious test either.

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 13. Methodist?

Alan Weissenbacher opens the door just a crack so that the potential blessings of transhumanism...

June 09, 2022

Science in Seminary? Really?

I've just finished up a three day consultation in Collegeville, Minnesota, at St. John's University...