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June 16, 2026

Free Will and Christian Freedom TWO

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

March 2026

March 15, 2026

Resources for Public Theology

Public Theology resources in books and online

February 2026

February 13, 2026

Changing Election Day 2026 Weather. Marc Elias

We might predict that the weather for Election Day 2026 will be stormy as federal...

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...

May 2025

May 20, 2025

Political and Prophetic Public Theology

Public theology includes political and prophetic tasks. The political task begins with worldview construction, with...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Climate Change and the Global Common Good

Lifting up a vision of the global common good -- a vision of a just,...

April 22, 2025

K2-18b? New Space Neighbors?

Might there by life on exoplanet K2-18b? Does dimethyl sulfide evidence count as a biosignature?...

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...

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...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

Politics of Revenge

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

February 03, 2025

Washington’s Attack on Lutherans

The White House has turned its guns on everyone domestic who sedulously spends money on...

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 25, 2024

What is Scandinavian Creation Theology?

Scandinavian Creation Theology or SCT does not picture the world as a cold and hostile...

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...

September 12, 2024

Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction: the New Barmen?

Is "Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction" of 2024 the new Barmen Declaration of 1934? The...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Justification of the Doubter

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

August 08, 2024

Walz and Lutheran Public Theology

Might a future Vice President Tim Walz benefit from deliberating out of a Lutheran Public...

August 06, 2024

Dancing the Lutheran Walz

Dancing the Lutheran Walz will put a smile on our face and a chuckle in...

July 2024

July 21, 2024

Project 2025 on Christian Nationalism

Does Project 2025 pave the road toward an American Christian Nationalist theocracy? Not in the...

July 19, 2024

No Threat of Christian Nationalism

Despite Christians against Christian nationalism warning us to fight the heretical and unpatriotic dragon, we...

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...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

This was a Disgrace! Sin 12

Was this a disgrace? Yes, indeed. But a dis-grace of a special sort. No tone...

May 24, 2024

Response to Underwood on Christian Nationalism

Intra-Christian fighting over Christian Nationalism draws attention away from confronting the real existential problem America...

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 18, 2024

Barmen on Christian Nationalism

In 1934, the Nazi hate speech forced the followers of Jesus Christ to make a...

May 14, 2024

ELCA on Christian Nationalism

In the ELCA document, "We Are Christians Against Christian Nationalism," Lutherans reject not only the...

May 13, 2024

What is the Trinity? Part 1

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