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December 2022

December 22, 2022

Christmas 4: Mean Estate

For here we see the great and wonderful work of God, that for the sake...

December 20, 2022

Christmas 3: Truth at Christmas

Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so...

December 16, 2022

Christmas 1: God Desired a Harlot

A Christmas meditation. "God Desired a Harlot," said St. John Chrysostom. What wondrous love is...

December 06, 2022

Did I lose my Self to Christian Freedom?

Christian freedom, paradoxically, enhances libertarian freedom for loving the neighbor.

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 26, 2022

A Picture of God

Alice Rose, age 6, drew a picture of God smiling. Why? Because God loves the...

November 21, 2022

Thanksgiving Food Theology

Food theologian Norman Wirzba raises our consciousness: we live with animals! Brian Brosovic raises our...

November 15, 2022

Jack London 6: Wolf and Lamb Ethics

Novelist Jack London only hints that civilization needs wolf and lamb ethics. We would aim...

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...

November 07, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 15. Lutheran?

Is a distinctively Lutheran transhumanism likely? No, according to Noreen Herzfeld. Why? Because transhumanist assumptions...

November 04, 2022

Jack London 3: The Sea Wolf

Beneath the thin veneer of civilization, the preternatural wolf with all its ferocity crouches in...

October 2022

October 31, 2022

Resentment 5: Unhappy Consciousness

White 'n' woke Progressive Christians risk introjecting their ressentiment to create a moral narcissism in...

October 29, 2022

Reformation Sunday 2022

When we say "justification by faith," which dimension of faith justifies? Belief? Trust? Indwelling of...

October 28, 2022

Resentment 4: American Christian Nationalism

Ressintement in white American Christian nationalism sustains both racism and xenophobia

October 23, 2022

What is Public Theology?

What is public theology? Public theology is conceived in the church, critically honed in the...

October 20, 2022

To Eat? Part Seven. Christian Vegetarian?

Christian vegetarianism protects animals first. Insofar as no-kill cultivated meat protects animals and weans the...

October 18, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Six: Catholic?

We imagine a world where the vast majority of meat is cultivated, and only a...

October 07, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Seven: Final Scapegoat

Rene Girard’s theory of Jesus-as-the-final-scapegoat reveals to us that we human beings are liars and...

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 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 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 31, 2022

Prebunking Disinformation

To fight truth decay, I prescribe debunking disinformation. I propose an alliance including scientists, skeptics,...

August 29, 2022

Economism vs Common Good Part Four

By myth-busting, we show how the 7 principal tenets of Milton Friedman's economism are destructive...

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...