In the controversy over angry theologians, we note how moments of unaddressed injustice prompt justifiable anger. Yet, Jeuss warns us to watch out for that log in our own eye. Read more
In the controversy over angry theologians, we note how moments of unaddressed injustice prompt justifiable anger. Yet, Jeuss warns us to watch out for that log in our own eye. Read more
When God raised Jesus from the dead on the first Easter, God promised to raise you and me at the future advent of the New Creation. Like a seemingly dead seed buried in the ground, our dead body, soul, and spirit will sprout and flower into a soma pneumatikon, a spiritual body in God's eternity. That's the Christian promise. Read more
AI prophets have issued a warning: pause big AI advancement now and instantiate regulatory laws now before civilization loses control. It's a crisis moment. How will we rise to the occasion? Read more
US Congress Reps have donned an AR-15 lapel pin allegedly in support of 2nd Ammendment rights while school children fall daily into pools of their own blood after being shot by AR-15s. Nothing short of a ban on all civilian ownership of military style assault weaponry could curb the body count. But those AR-15 lapel pins and the lugubrious campaign donations from the NRA continue to divert our attention from the real issue into endless discussions of background checks, bump stocks, mental health, and criminals. America is slowly committing suicide by gun profit. Read more
Absorption into the mystical infinite has been the life's goal of Hindus and new agers. It's the ultimate identification of the self with the whole of reality that comes after the last rebirth. Or, one can experience cosmic unity now through yoga meditation. This one option in our list of afterlife options. Are you a mystic? Read more
Attempts at communicating with the dead puzzle me. Oh, how I wished to receive an unambiguous and comforting message from my deceased mother! I got a message. And it was comforting. Yet, I still walk around with a shade of skeptical doubt. Maybe, like faith in God, some level of doubt is unavoidable. Read more
Is ChatGPT intelligent? The answer may not matter to professors or journal editors. Students could plagaraise their term papers so easily that even the smartest professor would be fooled. Journal editors are beside themselves with worry over the factual accuracy of their published articles and, like the professors, over plagairism. Virtually every academic who has experimented with ChatGPT is astonished at its high level of proficiency and uncanny capacity for assembling relevant data into readable form. Will the tsunami of AI-generated text and soon-to-be-developed video inundate traditional researchers and writers? We will drown, never to be heard from again? Read more
Reports of Near-Death Experiences suggest we humans are more than mere meat. An afterlife awaits us. What could this mean? Can we learn from science? Read more
Francisco Ayala (1934-2023). Scientist. Leader. Man of God. Franciso passed away this week. He was 89. We remenber Francisco for his contributions to genetics and for his leadership as president of the American Academy of Sciences. In the field of Theology and Science, Francisco sought to maintain the intergrity of evolutionary biology in religious circles. I thank Francisco for being a gift to both lab and pew. Read more
Do you want to get born again? Like the Greek idea of the immortal soul, the Indian idea of reincarnation relies on a soulechtomy--that is, the removal of an immaterial soul from a physical body. Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains add the wheel of rebirth until the soul realizes its oneness with the All, the ground of all reality. The soul is then liberated from reincarnation. Read more
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