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2025-05-22T16:31:19-07:00

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Corruption and Cruelty without Conscience

Last updated on: May 22, 2025 at 4:31 pm By Ted Peters

Government sponsored corruption and cruelty rattle the religious conscience while MAGA Republican bystanders shamelessly keep their mouths shut. What is a public theologian to do? Read more

Politics and Religion

2025-05-14T15:35:55-07:00

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The Cosmic Common Good

Last updated on: May 14, 2025 at 3:35 pm By Ted Peters

When comparing Daniel Sheid with John Hart on the cosmic common good, we ask whether "cosmos" should stick with Earth or include ETI elsewhere in the universe. Read more

General Christian

Politics and Religion

Ancient Alien

Ecology

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Climate Change and the Global Common Good

Last updated on: April 28, 2025 at 11:12 am By Ted Peters

Lifting up a vision of the global common good -- a vision of a just, sustainable, participatory, and planetary society -- is the first and necessary step to overcome the selfishness justified by modernity's functional religion, namely, free market economics. Read more

Politics and Religion

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K2-18b? New Space Neighbors?

Last updated on: April 22, 2025 at 8:14 am By Ted Peters

Might there by life on exoplanet K2-18b? Does dimethyl sulfide evidence count as a biosignature? At only 124 lightyears down the street, is it time to invite our new space neighbors to a church basement potluck? Read more

Technology and Religion

James Webb Space Telescope

K2-18b

2025-04-16T17:47:00-07:00

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Does Reason Prove the Afterlife? Gödel’s Surprising Argument

Last updated on: April 16, 2025 at 5:47 pm By Ted Peters

Kurt Gödel’s Afterlife Proof for resurrection of the dead meets the standards of scientific rationality and religious faith. If life in this evolutionary and historical world is meaningful, and if we die before that meaning can attain fulfillment, then it follows that we will enjoy meaningful fulfillment in the afterlife. Happy Easter. Read more

Technology and Religion

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2025-04-07T11:54:43-07:00

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Robert Nicastro on Teilhard de Chardin

Last updated on: April 7, 2025 at 11:54 am By Ted Peters

Robert Nicastro has just sucessfully defended his Villanova University dissertation on the revolutionary thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this gripping recitation of Teilhard's career as both a scientist and theologian accompanied by an insightful explications of this complicated worldview, Nicastro inspires us with the hope that through evolutionary development God will unite all things in love at Point Omega. Read more

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evolution and religion

2025-04-01T09:29:26-07:00

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Do Scapegoats Purify America?

Last updated on: April 1, 2025 at 9:29 am By Ted Peters

In order to make America great again, the White House tries to fire civil servants who are allegedly lunatics, impeach judges who are allegedly progressives, and deport immigrants who are allegedly criminals. In order to purify the nation, certain groups are being scapegoated. Will this actually purify America or pollute it with cruelty? Read more

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What is Vocation? Ask Sang Pil Yun

Last updated on: March 28, 2025 at 8:46 am By Ted Peters

Following Karl Barth, Sang Pil Yun argues that the calling of Jesus Christ extends to all humanity under the universal light of reconciliation, However, not all individuals become Christians in an existential sense. Christian existence is marked by a personal response to the call, In union with Christ, the called Christian loves God and neighbor. Read more

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Remembering Holmes Rolston III’s planet

Last updated on: March 16, 2025 at 2:47 pm By Ted Peters

Planet Earth will miss its renowned paladin, Holmes Rolston III (1932-2025). He died on February 12 this year. Holmes was an academic champion of environmental ethics and public policy who influenced philosophers, theologians, scientists, and the wider public. Read more

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