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January 2023

January 14, 2023

Are the Bible and Big Bang Consonant?

Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Yes. The notion of Time=0 may not...

December 2022

December 06, 2022

Did I lose my Self to Christian Freedom?

Christian freedom, paradoxically, enhances libertarian freedom for loving the neighbor.

December 04, 2022

Creating an AI Co-Creator? Philip Hefner’s Mind

Could God's Created Co-Creator create an AI Co-Creator, thereby making humans into gods? What does...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Did I lose my Self to my Brain?

Brain and self. What's the relation? Can a neuroscientist rightly say that the self can...

November 28, 2022

Did I lose my inborn sense of God to Atheism?

Our inborn sensus divinitatis touted by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher seems to be threatened...

November 21, 2022

Thanksgiving Food Theology

Food theologian Norman Wirzba raises our consciousness: we live with animals! Brian Brosovic raises our...

November 15, 2022

Jack London 6: Wolf and Lamb Ethics

Novelist Jack London only hints that civilization needs wolf and lamb ethics. We would aim...

November 14, 2022

Jack London 5: Wolf Pack Ethics

Jack London's ethical naturalism cultivates an evolution-based morality. But, such an ethical naturalist must choose...

November 13, 2022

Jack London 4: Lone Wolf Ethics

In this sub-series within the larger Jack London series we are asking: given that we...

November 08, 2022

Did I lose my Mind to Science?

Our conscious mind may be a delusion, if you listen to your friendly neurocentrist. But,...

November 08, 2022

Did I lose my free will to Science?

The neuro-determinists want to steal our free will and fence it to our brains. Are...

November 07, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 15. Lutheran?

Is a distinctively Lutheran transhumanism likely? No, according to Noreen Herzfeld. Why? Because transhumanist assumptions...

November 02, 2022

Resentment with Compassion 6

To live the Christian life, we certainly need to pray that the Holy Spirit give...

October 2022

October 20, 2022

To Eat? Part Seven. Christian Vegetarian?

Christian vegetarianism protects animals first. Insofar as no-kill cultivated meat protects animals and weans the...

October 18, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Six: Catholic?

We imagine a world where the vast majority of meat is cultivated, and only a...

October 17, 2022

Jack London 2: White Fang

In "The Call of the Wild," a San Francisco dog, Buck, goes to Alaska and...

October 12, 2022

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October 12, 2022

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October 11, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Five: Muslim?

In this interview with Professor Mahjabeen Dhala, we learn that Muslims are likely to eat...

October 10, 2022

Jack London 1: The Call of the Wild

Does a primordial wolf lurk within your pet dog? Does a violent preternatural nature lurk...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Three: Hindu? Jain?

Will Hindus or Jains eat no-kill cultivated meat? Not likely. At least according to Dharma...

September 21, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Two: Kosher?

Would cultivated meat be kosher? We ask Jewish Studies Professor Sam Shonkoff, who provides the...

September 19, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat, Part One: The Science

The prospect of no-kill cultivated meat products could spell reduction if not the end of...

September 12, 2022

The Chaos Machine, Social Media, and Public Theology

According to Max Fisher in "The Chaos Machine," social media greedily alters the way we...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Prebunking Disinformation

To fight truth decay, I prescribe debunking disinformation. I propose an alliance including scientists, skeptics,...

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

After comparing models of creation in Big Bang cosmology, the multiverse, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian mythology,...

August 08, 2022

What is Theological Methodology?

When interpreting the Bible for the contemporary context, each systematic theologian must justify the method...

August 01, 2022

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part Two

Public theologians looking for truth should embrace genuine science but eschew scientism, the materialist ideology.

August 01, 2022

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part One

I recommend Christians and other religious leaders pledge allegiance to the scientific community. I also...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

Ecotheology when It’s “Time to Act”

It's time to act. The eco-scientists five decades ago were God's prophets warning us to...