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Why Public Theology Needs a Theology of Nature

I am preparing a paper, "Natural Science and Theology of Nature within Public Theology," to...

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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,...

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Free Will and Christian Freedom TWO

Within a deterministic framework, "libertarian free will" refers to self-determination and "Christian freedom" refers to...

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Quantum Consciousness Theology: Response to Keith Giles

Quantum physics sprouts blossoms in at least three theological flowers: (1) Quantum Consciousness Theology; (2)...

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Is AI in the Image of God?

When we ask whether AI is in the image of God, we note that strong...

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 16, 2025

Does Reason Prove the Afterlife? Gödel’s Surprising Argument

Kurt Gödel’s Afterlife Proof for resurrection of the dead meets the standards of scientific rationality...

April 01, 2025

Do Scapegoats Purify America?

In order to make America great again, the White House tries to fire civil servants...

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...

March 14, 2025

Roger Olson on Neoliberalism and Social Darwinism

When the public theologian attempts to diagnose the disease now plaguing Washington DC, Dr. Roger...

March 01, 2025

Public Sin and the White House Shouting Match

Public Sin Might the concept of public sin aid the public theologian in illuminating the...

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February 24, 2025

Politics of Revenge

In a Christian Century editorial, Peter W Marty asks a challenging question: how can Christians...

February 17, 2025

Big Bang and the Bible: Hyung-Joo Lee

Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Hyung-Joo Lee proposes the principle of "intra-physics...

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 13, 2022

Jack London 4: Lone Wolf Ethics

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

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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

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Interpreting Jack London's Wolf Troika is combined with introducing the Leona Foxx Suspense Thriller series.

October 12, 2022

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