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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Are UFOs Our Celestial Saviors?

Are UFOs Our Celestial Saviors? The experience of sighting a UAP or being abducted by...

November 2023

November 09, 2023

Big History and Evangelical Theology: Roger Olson

Big History and Evangelical Theology mix like oil and water. Evangelical theologian Roger E Olson...

October 2023

October 08, 2023

Science and Religion in Big History

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

October 07, 2023

Science, Religion, and Deep Time

The terrific new book, "Science, Religion, and Deep Time," is an honest attempt to resolve...

August 2023

August 18, 2023

2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions: Gaia’s Wizard

Does worship of the earth-mother goddess, Gaia, connect with the paradoxical religious sensibilities of the...

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...

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 11, 2023

How to see a miracle? Miracles 1

How to see a miracle? It's easy to dismiss an event of God's grace when...

April 2023

April 28, 2023

The Science-as-Savior Eco-Myth

The science-as-savior myth coined two plus centuries ago by Europe's Enlightenment has resurfaced as an...

April 10, 2023

Afterlife? Really? What are the options?

The axial religious breakthrough--giving rise to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Greek Philosophy, and Biblical Religion--ran...

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 14, 2022

Christmas Blues

As valuable as Science for the Church is for getting our heads screwed on right,...

November 2022

November 07, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 15. Lutheran?

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

October 2022

October 12, 2022

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October 03, 2022

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Four: Mormon?

Compassion toward non-human animals constitutes full reverence for God's creation, says LDS theologian Lincoln Cannon....

August 2022

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

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

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 19, 2022

Science for the Church? Greg Cootsona

Science for the Church. Greg Cootsona and Ted Peters in dialogue.

June 2022

June 16, 2022

Is ETI crying wolf?

SETI hears radio signals calling "wolf" when there is no wolf. But, keep hope alive...

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 14. Is it Scientific?

Religious transhumanism does not pass the scientific test. Nor the religious test either.

June 09, 2022

Science in Seminary? Really?

I've just finished up a three day consultation in Collegeville, Minnesota, at St. John's University...

June 06, 2022

Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson

Quantum theology can rely on either the Copenhagen indeterminist or Bohmian determinist interpretation of quantum...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

Robert John Russell: In Celebration

Robert John Russell's retirement May 19, 2022 marks a major transition in the field of...

May 12, 2022

Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Science

In the past, astrobiologists would not invite ufologists to their BBQs. Or vice versa. Is...