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April 03, 2024

Who is afraid of Christian Nationalism?

Who is afraid of Christian nationalism? I have never met a Christian nationalist. No church...

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...

March 27, 2024

Get Your Trump Bible!

After a Mara Lago meeting with Tik Tok investor Jeff Yass, Mr. Trump endorsed Tik...

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 06, 2024

No Soul? What do materialists say? Soul 4

What do materialists say about the soul? There is no such thing. This is the...

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 27, 2024

Christian Nationalism on our Doorstep

Will the Trump presidential campaign put Christian nationalism on our doorstep? Would a Trump reelection...

February 24, 2024

Body, Soul, and Spirit. Soul 3

How do you like trichotomy? Body, soul, and spirit are three dimensions of one whole...

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 12, 2024

What is Public Systematic Theology? Part Two

Public systematic theology necessitates engagement in interreligious dialogue and comparative theology when engaging in discourse...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Are Christians Losing the Culture War?

Why, I wonder, would our cancel culture go so far as to cancel Jesus from...

December 03, 2023

Sin-Talk and Grace-Talk

Whereas sin-talk alone squashes our sense of self-worth, grace-talk announces our value in the eyes...

November 2023

November 19, 2023

Anti-White Christian Nationalism

The American Academy of Religion just offered a well-attended and fascinating panel on "The Threat...

October 2023

October 13, 2023

Big History, Religious Naturalism, and Ursula Goodenough

Religious Naturalism meets Big History. Evolutionary biologist Ursula Goodenough finds meaning already within natural processes....

September 2023

September 07, 2023

What happens after we die?

What happens after we die? This is one of the most anguishing of our existential...

August 2023

August 20, 2023

What is justification by faith?

Justification by faith, as emphasized by St. Paul and again in the Protestant Reformation, signifies...

August 18, 2023

2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions: Gaia’s Wizard

Does worship of the earth-mother goddess, Gaia, connect with the paradoxical religious sensibilities of the...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

UFOs and Atomic Weaponry

Is there a connection between UAPs or UFOs and atomic weaponry? Yes, indeed. In fact,...

June 2023

June 19, 2023

The proleptic power of new creation. Miracles 7

Rather than a push from past causes, present effects are the result of God's draw...

June 15, 2023

MAGA and Moral Decline

Is America really in moral decline? Why might we want to believe in moral decline?...

May 2023

May 18, 2023

Hume on Miracles. Miracles 3

Philosopher David Hume defines a miracle as an event that breaks a law of nature....

April 2023

April 10, 2023

Afterlife? Really? What are the options?

The axial religious breakthrough--giving rise to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Greek Philosophy, and Biblical Religion--ran...

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...