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July 2024

July 02, 2024

Are UUs going to Mars?

This past week on Star Island in the Atlantic, IRAS hosted an engrossingly intense conference...

June 2024

June 17, 2024

Ancient Alien Alternative History

Whereas I think the alternative history proposed by so-called ancient astronaut theorists is an attempt...

June 15, 2024

Moltmann, Muslims and Al-Mizan

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

May 2024

May 29, 2024

Against UAP Disclosure?

Since 2017 the movement pressing for government disclosure of UAP documents has picked up avalanche...

May 21, 2024

UAP Transparency Act?

The UAP Transparency Act of 2024 gives scientific ufologists hope that government revelations will tell...

April 2024

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...

April 08, 2024

Karen Lebacqz’s Christian Viewpoint on Abortion

Karen Lebacqz's Christian viewpoint on abortion is illuminating. Stop trying to find the point in...

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 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 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...

December 2023

December 16, 2023

No! No! UFO

No! No! UFO. That's what the U.S. Senate said to scientists clamoring for passage of...

October 2023

October 16, 2023

AI and Radical Life Extension. Afterlife 17

Like a volcano, AI potential is spreading excitement and turmoil across the landscape. We must...

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....

October 08, 2023

Science and Religion in Big History

How do science and religion relate within big history? Like an ancient army pillaging conquered...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

Robert John Russell on Hume. Miracles 9.

Robert John Russell critiques my critique of David Hume to expand the discussion of miracle...

August 21, 2023

Systematic Theology Resources

It's time to inventory systematic theology resources for students, pastors, and scholars.

August 17, 2023

2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions: Planetary Hugs

I'm heartend by the overflow of heartfelt commitment to the future generations who will live...

August 16, 2023

2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions: How Big is God?

How big is God? Big enough to create more than a trillion galaxies with billions...

August 07, 2023

UFOs and Aliens at the Vatican

We asked Jones Funes, former director of the Vatican Observatory about knowledge of UFOs and...

June 2023

June 25, 2023

Buddhism and Science on Our Mind

In the dialogue between Buddhism and science, Buddhists believe they can offer a science of...

June 04, 2023

Evolution and Involution in Vedic Science

Vedic science finds itself in a paradox. On the one hand, Vedic sience benefits from...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

Jesus’ Nature Miracles. Miracles 5

Jesus' nature miracles do not break nature's laws. Rather, they break into nature's processes from...

May 17, 2023

Two Healing MIracles for Sainthood. Miracles 2

It takes two healing miracles to qualify for sainthood. Can we ask science to confirm...

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...