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Sharing a Church Pew with a Space Alien

Are we earthlings ready to share a church pew with a space alien? And, of...

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...

February 2025

February 14, 2025

Trinitarian Big History: Chris Barrigar

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

January 2025

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 21, 2024

A UFO for Christmas?

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

March 2024

March 17, 2024

Nonreductive Physicalism. Soul 6

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

March 10, 2024

Emergent Dualism. Soul 5

Emergent dualism relies on the history of evolution to create a new whole -- a...

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 01, 2024

Religion and Science Weekend 2024

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

October 2023

October 10, 2023

Teilhard and Big History

When we remind ourselves of the connection between Teilhard and Big History, we realize that...

December 2022

December 04, 2022

Creating an AI Co-Creator? Philip Hefner’s Mind

Could God's Created Co-Creator create an AI Co-Creator, thereby making humans into gods? What does...

November 2022

November 16, 2022

Jack London 7: The Red One

Jack London's short story of 1916, "The Red One," looks uncannily like Ancient Astronaut TV...

November 14, 2022

Jack London 5: Wolf Pack Ethics

Jack London's ethical naturalism cultivates an evolution-based morality. But, such an ethical naturalist must choose...

November 13, 2022

Jack London 4: Lone Wolf Ethics

In this sub-series within the larger Jack London series we are asking: given that we...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

Jack London 2: White Fang

In "The Call of the Wild," a San Francisco dog, Buck, goes to Alaska and...

October 12, 2022

Religious Transhumanism Resources

Religious Transhumanism: Articles and Resources

October 10, 2022

Jack London 1: The Call of the Wild

Does a primordial wolf lurk within your pet dog? Does a violent preternatural nature lurk...

August 2022

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

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

July 2022

July 19, 2022

Science for the Church? Greg Cootsona

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

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...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 7: Buddhist? Yes.

Both Buddhism and Transhumanism seek to reduce suffering and increase happiness, by degrees and even...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 23: Nature

Creator God, who loves every past of the world you have created, help us to...

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 26, 2022

Lucas Mix on Life in the Cosmos

Should the public theologian develop a scientifically informed Theology of Nature? Yes, indeed. Should astrobiology...

January 22, 2022

H+ 2: The Transhuman, the Posthuman, & the Truly Human

Should we Christians, Jews, and Muslims board the transhumanist train? Should we ask for our...

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Are Alien Scientists the Real Gods?

Are Alien Scientists the Real Gods? SR 1171 UFO 1 “An advanced scientific civilization could...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

Should Religion Go Extinct with the Dinosaurs?

Should religion go extinct? Should we accelerate evolution by killing off religion? Just as the...

October 10, 2021

Evolution and Religion: Should Christians Dump Darwin?

Should Christians dump Darwin for creationism or intelligent design? No. There is no war between...