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September 2026

September 14, 2026

Why Public Theology Needs a Theology of Nature

I am preparing a paper, "Natural Science and Theology of Nature within Public Theology," to...

June 2026

June 16, 2026

Free Will and Christian Freedom TWO

Within a deterministic framework, "libertarian free will" refers to self-determination and "Christian freedom" refers to...

May 2026

May 19, 2026

Quantum Consciousness Theology: Response to Keith Giles

Quantum physics sprouts blossoms in at least three theological flowers: (1) Quantum Consciousness Theology; (2)...

March 2026

March 15, 2026

Resources for Public Theology

Public Theology resources in books and online

March 12, 2026

Sharing a Church Pew with a Space Alien

Are we earthlings ready to share a church pew with a space alien? And, of...

November 2025

November 11, 2025

AI and Public Theology

Both Silicon Valley techies and public theologians register the same two fears about the future...

September 2025

September 13, 2025

UAP Hellfire? Otherworldly technology?

The recent attempt to shoot down a UFO by the US military off the coast...

July 2025

July 03, 2025

Braden Molhoek on Free Will

The knotty question of free will should avoid the extrreme contrast between total determinism and...

June 2025

June 26, 2025

Is our free will really in jail?

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

June 05, 2025

Finding Hope on a Warming Planet

How do we find hope for the future of our warming planet? CTNS asked Richard...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

AI and Sin: How Sloth, Bias, and Power Shape the Future

Can AI become sinful? No. Can AI enhance already sinful human activity? Yes. In particular,...

May 06, 2025

The Cosmic Common Good

When comparing Daniel Sheid with John Hart on the cosmic common good, we ask whether...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Climate Change and the Global Common Good

Lifting up a vision of the global common good -- a vision of a just,...

April 16, 2025

Does Reason Prove the Afterlife? Gödel’s Surprising Argument

Kurt Gödel’s Afterlife Proof for resurrection of the dead meets the standards of scientific rationality...

April 07, 2025

Robert Nicastro on Teilhard de Chardin

Robert Nicastro has just sucessfully defended his Villanova University dissertation on the revolutionary thought of...

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...

January 2025

January 16, 2025

Working on Science and Religion: Update

Fraser Watts at ISSR offers an update on those Working on Science and Religion. Let's...

January 13, 2025

Demons and UAP in the Pentagon?

The talk of the UAP town is the new book by Luis Elizondo, "Imminent." Elizondo...

December 2024

December 27, 2024

UAP in the Nation of Islam?

A heavenly voice speaking within a UFO abduction experience tells Louis Farrakhan to become the...

December 21, 2024

A UFO for Christmas?

Are space aliens more scientifically and technologically advanced than we on Earth? If so, and...

December 07, 2024

Can AI become demon-possessed?

When we ask whether AI can become possessed by a spirit sent by Satan, we...

October 2024

October 30, 2024

UAP, ETI, and David Bohm’s Physics

Scholar ufologist Jensine Andresen makes a coherent case that David Bohm's dialectic between the implicate...

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 13, 2024

UAP and Ancient Alien Theology

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

August 2024

August 27, 2024

Scientizing Ufology

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

July 2024

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 07, 2024

ChatGPT Theology’s Image of God?

Can we rightly ask that ChatGPT theology's image of God convey divine love, care, and...

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...