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July 2022

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...

June 2022

June 27, 2022

What is the Gospel?

The gospel is the story of Jesus told with its significance. The significance of Jesus’...

June 24, 2022

Gun Safety Legislation & Prevarication

It is my view that states and even Uncle Sam should prohibit all transfer of...

June 23, 2022

The Public Theology of Jennifer Hockenbery

The Journal of Lutheran Ethics is an offering by public theologian and ethicist, Jennifer Hockenbery,...

June 16, 2022

Is ETI crying wolf?

SETI hears radio signals calling "wolf" when there is no wolf. But, keep hope alive...

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 14. Is it Scientific?

Religious transhumanism does not pass the scientific test. Nor the religious test either.

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 13. Methodist?

Alan Weissenbacher opens the door just a crack so that the potential blessings of transhumanism...

June 09, 2022

Science in Seminary? Really?

I've just finished up a three day consultation in Collegeville, Minnesota, at St. John's University...

June 08, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 12: Catholic?

Roman Catholic ethicist Brian Patrick Green says "yes" to technological progress because it helps humanity...

June 06, 2022

Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson

Quantum theology can rely on either the Copenhagen indeterminist or Bohmian determinist interpretation of quantum...

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 28, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 11: What about the body?

Over against the cybernetic immortality sought by H+, theologian Jaimie Fowler celebrates -- especially in...

May 23, 2022

Excommunicating Nancy Pelosi

Imagine Nancy Pelosi and Archbishop Cordileone kneeling at the same communion rail!

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 13, 2022

Cosmotheology: Steven J. Dick

Intellectual historian Steven J. Dick is a religious naturalist. Nature is inclusive of the entire...

May 12, 2022

Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Science

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

May 03, 2022

Universal Salvation, Grace, and Hellfire

After identifying problems with infernalism [everlasting hell] and contingent immortality [some souls are annihilated], we...

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 17, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 9: Christian Transhumanism versus Transhumanist Christianity

It would be difficult, I think, to combine the Promethean self-understanding within transhumanism with any...

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 07, 2022

The Public Theologian as Ecumenical & Ecumenic Pluralist

What is public theology? Among other agendas, the public theologian takes up both ecumenical and...

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 24, 2022

The Danger of Free Will Denial

Dial 9-1-1! They’re coming from every direction to steal my free will! Woe is me!...

March 21, 2022

From Ukraine to World War Three in One Misstep

The Ukrainian war forces our leadership to choose between multiple evils. Some evils are worse...

March 19, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 6. Jewish? No

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson will protect your and my human dignity as we are today: imperfect, struggling,...

March 16, 2022

The Copernican Principle and Cosmic Consciousness

The Copernican Principle allegedly decenters and demotes human self-importance, but it fails to hammer down...

March 15, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 5: Mormon? Yes

Lincoln Cannon urges us to recognize that Mormonism is already implicitly Transhumanist.

March 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 4. Evangelical? Yes

The Christian Transhumanist Association under the leadership of Micah Redding marries technology with faith to...