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February 2025

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...

February 15, 2025

UAP in Science: Robert Powell

Since 2017credentialed scientists have set up progressive research programns to identify UAP (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena)...

February 14, 2025

Trinitarian Big History: Chris Barrigar

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

February 08, 2025

Paula White and Christian Nationalism

Paula White and Christian Nationalism? Are they connected? No. But some self-rightous progressive Chrstians are...

September 2024

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...

June 2024

June 11, 2024

Mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism

Are Americans mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism? No, not exactly. Religious nationalism in both lands is...

May 2024

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 13, 2024

What is the Trinity? Part 1

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

May 10, 2024

Christian Nationalism Resources

Christian Nationalism Resources available at Ted Peters' Patheos column on public theology.

April 2024

April 13, 2024

God Made Trump. Really?

God Made Trump

April 10, 2024

Trump and Arizona on Abortion: Abortion 5

Here I sin boldly by asking the Democratic Party to (1) maintain support for a...

March 2024

March 19, 2024

Paul Lange on Abortion, Abortion 3

Here’s my question: when does the dignity of the unborn child become morally protectable, thereby...

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 17, 2024

Substance Dualism. Soul 2

Is your soul an immaterial substance that, with a soulechtomy, can be extracted from your...

February 13, 2024

Theologies of the Soul. Soul 1

Let's take a tour through options, through alternative theologices of the soul such as Emergent...

February 01, 2024

Religion and Science Weekend 2024

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

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 17, 2024

Contextual Theology at the Vatican: Really?

In Ad Theologiam Promovendam of November 2023 ,Pope Francis opened the Vatican windows for the...

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...

January 10, 2024

Supporting Husbands in Theology

The handy Russian word, 'matushka', means 'mother' but refers to the wife of a priest....

April 2023

April 05, 2023

Your Robot Pastor is Here

Are Bless U-2, Buddha-Bot, and Rabbi-Bot inaugurating a new era in religious leadership? Will AI...

December 2022

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 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...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Resentment 3: Russian Christian Nationalism

Christian nationalism in Russia is top-down and prosecutes international war. Christian nationalism in the United...