Democrats defend women's health. Republicans defend the unborn child from conception onward. What about those between these extremes who care for both the woman and the child? Might Democrats add to their supporters those who support early term pregnancy termination but procribe late term abortion? Read more
Does Project 2025 pave the road toward an American Christian Nationalist theocracy? Not in the least. Rather, it promotes religious freedom. So, why are anti-evangelicals still fighting? Read more
Despite Christians against Christian nationalism warning us to fight the heretical and unpatriotic dragon, we did not see the dragon raise its ugly visage at the Republican National Convention. Whew! That was a close call. Read more
The near death experience of presidential candidate Donald Trump places him at the vortex of the scapegoat mechanism, wherein Trump becomes the sacred center around which a spirit of national unity could coalesce. Satan casts out Satan by casting out acrimony, division, and violence. In its place we are rewarded with order, unity, and Satan's glee. Read more
Even with the revival of the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis (CTH) to explain UAP, it appears that the traditional Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) remains stronger. Read more
Can we rightly ask that ChatGPT theology's image of God convey divine love, care, and grace? Yes, indeed. Just recognize that God is real even if God does not literally match our projected images. Read more
Might we develop a secular view of the soul as the spiritual core of a person? This is what psychiatrist John Calvin Chatlos offers us. What's unique is Chatlos' experience with substance abusers who undergo spiritual transformation. The steps? First, an oceanic feeling. Second, a sense of self-worth. Self-worth is followed thirdly by a faith process that leads to a transformation of the soul expressed as love for others. He calls it a "Framework for Spirituality." Read more
This past week on Star Island in the Atlantic, IRAS hosted an engrossingly intense conference on the astro-sciences and religion. Should we humans depart earth and colonize other planets, leaving our home planet to devolve into lifelessness? Read more
Whereas I think the alternative history proposed by so-called ancient astronaut theorists is an attempt to support materialism -- even extraterrestrial materialism -- George Mason University professor Jaimie Gunderson proposes a different hypothesis. She proposes epistemological "pleasure." Fascinating. Read more
Jürgen Moltmann along with the Muslims composing Al-Mizan have heard our scientists prophesying planetary ecocide and have responded theologically, ethically, and politically. Justice and liberation belong inextricably with sustaining the fecundity of God's creation. Read more
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