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2023-07-04T12:32:02-07:00

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The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part One

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 12:32 pm   By Ted Peters

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This is part one of two on "Cross, Creation, and The Powers: The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado" United Methodist pastor Sharon Delgado incarnates public theology like a ripe peach gushes with the nectar of heaven. Read more

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2022-12-14T13:50:12-08:00

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The Chaos Machine, Social Media, and Public Theology

Last updated on: December 14, 2022 at 1:50 pm   By Ted Peters

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According to Max Fisher in "The Chaos Machine," social media greedily alters the way we think by stimulating outrage-generated dopamine flow. This maximizes your and my screen engagement time which, in turn, maximizes revenue from advertising. Silicon Valley geniuses have discovered how sin works. Now, when will they discover repentance? Read more

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2023-05-07T18:30:48-07:00

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How does Jesus save? Part Two: Teacher & Moral Influence

Last updated on: May 7, 2023 at 6:30 pm   By Ted Peters

Jesus is the True Teacher, an Example, and Moral Influence. Is this how Jesus saves? This is the second in our series of posts on Atonement. Read more

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2023-07-04T20:10:10-07:00

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Just, Sustainable, Participatory, and Planetary. Common Good Part Five

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 8:10 pm   By Ted Peters

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We need to be guided by a vision of the global common good that will take us beyond the exclusivism of the church of economism to a just, sustainable, participatory, and planetary society. Read more

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Prebunking Disinformation

Last updated on: February 8, 2025 at 2:18 pm   By Ted Peters

To fight truth decay, I prescribe debunking disinformation. I propose an alliance including scientists, skeptics, and theologians: the SST Alliance. Read more

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2023-07-04T20:11:07-07:00

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Economism vs Common Good Part Four

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 8:11 pm   By Ted Peters

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By myth-busting, we show how the 7 principal tenets of Milton Friedman's economism are destructive to the common good. Read more

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What is Creation?

Last updated on: May 7, 2023 at 6:13 pm   By Ted Peters

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After comparing models of creation in Big Bang cosmology, the multiverse, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian mythology, Big History, and feminist theology, we introduce Ted Peters' proleptic eschatology: the Big Bang genesis of creation gains its essence from the new creation proleptically anticipated in Jesus’ Easter. Read more

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How does Jesus Save? Part One

Last updated on: May 7, 2023 at 6:31 pm   By Ted Peters

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The fireworks over Penal Substitution Theory makes us think that atonement itself is at stake. Not so. We've got six biblical and theological models to select from. Which is the best? Let's look at them all. Read more

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Economism vs Common Good Part Three

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 8:11 pm   By Ted Peters

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Following economist Richard Norgaard and theologian John Cobb, this post analyses the myth of economism in light of the common good. Read more

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Is Racism a Gospel Issue? Response to Grayson Gilbert

Last updated on: August 15, 2022 at 2:12 pm   By Ted Peters

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Is racism a gospel issue? To answer we first need to distinguish prejudice from systemic racism. Church members without race prejudice can still foster systemic racism. What's the solution? Ask African Americans. Read more

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