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Is our free will really in jail?

Neurophilosophy based on neuroscience locks human free will up in a deterministic jail. The way...

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Political and Prophetic Public Theology

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

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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...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Justification of the Doubter

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

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...

April 2024

April 27, 2024

Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 3,4: Church-State?

It is said that Christian nationalists want both to keep church and state separate --...

March 2024

March 30, 2024

Digital Immortality or Bodily Resurrection?

Digital immortality or cybernetic immortality via whole brain emulation is what transhumanists offer us. We...

January 2024

January 26, 2024

What is Public Systematic Theology? Part Three

What does "public" mean in "public systematic theology? According to Michael Agerbo Morch,the use of...

January 14, 2024

Power vs Goodness in 2024

In this 2024 election cycle, I'm worried. Why? Here's Ted's Timely Take: when it's power...

November 2022

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...

October 2022

October 12, 2022

Religious Transhumanism Resources

Religious Transhumanism: Articles and Resources

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August 31, 2022

Prebunking Disinformation

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

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

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

July 2022

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 05, 2022

America’s Two Killing Fields

America has two killing fields: one for gun massacres and one for those who make...

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...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

Gun Deaths in Ukraine and US

Ukraine at war has suffered 4013 civilian deaths so far this year. The US at...

May 20, 2022

Robert John Russell: In Celebration

Robert John Russell's retirement May 19, 2022 marks a major transition in the field of...

May 12, 2022

Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Science

In the past, astrobiologists would not invite ufologists to their BBQs. Or vice versa. Is...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Astrotheology as Public Theology

One the one hand, the Copernican Principle means that cosmic consciousness provides us on Earth...

April 27, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 10: Transhumanism vs Posthumanism

Will the posthuman supersede and replace the human? Or, will the posthuman merely enhance the...

April 12, 2022

Easter’s Cosmic Meaning

Easter's Cosmic Meaning is this: God's plan to finish creation by redeeming creation is anticipated...

April 03, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 8: UU? Yes

Like siblings born to Enlightenment parents, both Unitarian Universalism and transhumanism inherited a reliance on...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

The Art of War in Ukraine

President Biden’s strategic siege is artful in the moment of war. Russia's is not.

February 2022

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 26: Mysticism

How can an incorporating and inclusive totality of reality fit its grand truth inside our...

February 24, 2022

Short Prayers 20: Wild

God of creation and promised redemption, help us to honor yet be realistic about our...

February 24, 2022

Short Prayers 19: Revenge

God of both justice and grace, quench our thirst for justice and dismiss from our...

February 23, 2022

Short Prayers 14: Hope

God of creation and new creation, give us the combination of vision and wisdom necessary...

February 23, 2022

Short Prayers 9: Family

Our God in heaven, empower us to love each person within our family, and those...