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September 2024

September 25, 2024

What is Scandinavian Creation Theology?

Scandinavian Creation Theology or SCT does not picture the world as a cold and hostile...

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...

September 13, 2024

UAP and Ancient Alien Theology

In my exploration of alternative ontologies to explain UAP, Ancient Alien Theology stands up and...

September 12, 2024

Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction: the New Barmen?

Is "Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction" of 2024 the new Barmen Declaration of 1934? The...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Justification of the Doubter

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

August 27, 2024

Scientizing Ufology

Credentialed scientists are now engaging in UAP studies. Hooray! Even so, some dimenstions to the...

August 08, 2024

Walz and Lutheran Public Theology

Might a future Vice President Tim Walz benefit from deliberating out of a Lutheran Public...

August 06, 2024

Dancing the Lutheran Walz

Dancing the Lutheran Walz will put a smile on our face and a chuckle in...

August 03, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 3

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism does not support Christian Nationalism, to be sure. But it critiques Anti-Christian Nationalism...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 2

Anti-Christian Nationalism warns us against Christian Nationalism. This is a waste of energy. The real...

July 28, 2024

Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 1

If you can find an actual American Christian Nationalist to interrogate, you'll hear something like...

July 24, 2024

Advice to Kamala Harris. Abortion 6

Democrats defend women's health. Republicans defend the unborn child from conception onward. What about those...

July 21, 2024

Project 2025 on Christian Nationalism

Does Project 2025 pave the road toward an American Christian Nationalist theocracy? Not in the...

July 19, 2024

No Threat of Christian Nationalism

Despite Christians against Christian nationalism warning us to fight the heretical and unpatriotic dragon, we...

July 05, 2024

The Soul as Spiritual Core. Soul 8

Might we develop a secular view of the soul as the spiritual core of a...

June 2024

June 15, 2024

Moltmann, Muslims and Al-Mizan

Jürgen Moltmann along with the Muslims composing Al-Mizan have heard our scientists prophesying planetary ecocide...

June 11, 2024

Mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism

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

June 05, 2024

Un-Baptizing American Christian Nationalism

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood's new book, "Baptizing America," blames yesterday's mainline Protestants for today's...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

This was a Disgrace! Sin 12

Was this a disgrace? Yes, indeed. But a dis-grace of a special sort. No tone...

May 26, 2024

My Appeal to Heaven on Christian Nationalism

Might we legitimately interpret the pine tree on the "An Appeal to Heaven" flag as...

May 24, 2024

Response to Underwood on Christian Nationalism

Intra-Christian fighting over Christian Nationalism draws attention away from confronting the real existential problem America...

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 20, 2024

What is Rahner’s Rule? Trinity Part 2

According to Karl Rahner, the econmic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity...

May 18, 2024

Barmen on Christian Nationalism

In 1934, the Nazi hate speech forced the followers of Jesus Christ to make a...

May 14, 2024

ELCA on Christian Nationalism

In the ELCA document, "We Are Christians Against Christian Nationalism," Lutherans reject not only the...

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.

May 07, 2024

Gender and Race in Christian Nationalism: Parts 7,8

Both white Americans along with minority Americans are feeling the kind of anxiety that leads...

May 01, 2024

Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 5,6: God’s Plan

Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their anger at Donald Trump onto evangelicals...

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 --...