DOGE and the House GOP budget cuts are a smokescreen hiding an elephant sized theft. By dramatically cutting pennies from civil service paychecks, the billionaires who paid to elect the 47th US president will plunder budget dollars through tax cuts. Where will the dollars for the tax cuts come from? From the future. From the $4 trillion debt ceiling raise. The promise of a balanced budget is a lie. And the $5000 dividend offer to taxpayers is a bribe to quiet public objection. Read more
Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Hyung-Joo Lee proposes the principle of "intra-physics emergence" to demonstrate how emergent properties require multiple theories to explain the physical world. Nature changes over time. Everything was not pre-determined at the point of origin, at the Big Bang. This provides hope for the Christian theologian who looks forward to God's transformation and redemption in the future. Read more
Since 2017credentialed scientists have set up progressive research programns to identify UAP (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena) and test ETH (the extraterrestrial hypothesis). Robert Powell's new book on UFOs sets the standard for the scientist. Even so, certain dimentions of the phenomenon -- subjective meaning, paranormal claims, abduction experiences, religious revelation, and such -- lie outside the fence of scientific research. Can we stretch science? Or must we embrace extra-scientific methods to study it all? Read more
Chris Barrigar's Trinitarian Big History agrees with evolutionary theorists that religion has predisposed us to "neural transcendence-positing dispositions. Yet, evolution does not account for our knowledge of the divine Trinity. Special revelation in Jesus of Nazareth accounts for this. Read more
Paula White and Christian Nationalism? Are they connected? No. But some self-rightous progressive Chrstians are ready to sling mud at Paula White and hope that some of the mud rubs off on the president. Why bother with slinging mud at other Christians? Why not sling all of it directly at the right target? Read more
The White House has turned its guns on everyone domestic who sedulously spends money on helping the poor, the homeless, and the sojourner. A new blast of groundfire is shooting at, of all people, the Lutherans. For decades Lutherans have deftly and efficiently distributed both private donations and public contributions to desparately needed social services. Under the marching orders of Michael Flynn and Elon Musk, the Lutherans will be starved out of Washington's largess. What should those faithful to Jesus' teachings about compassion do? Read more
Fraser Watts at ISSR offers an update on those Working on Science and Religion. Let's add to Watts' list an update on theologians attending to the ecological crisis, genetic engineering, Artificial Intelligence, astrobiology, and post-colonial critique. Read more
The talk of the UAP town is the new book by Luis Elizondo, "Imminent." Elizondo briefly alludes to evangelical apocalypticism within the Pentagon and those who believe that UFOs are demonic. Just how should we evaluate apocalyptic thinking in both the Pentagon and conservative Christianity? Read more
A heavenly voice speaking within a UFO abduction experience tells Louis Farrakhan to become the prime minister of the Nation of Islam. It is science in its more highly evolved extraterrestrial manifestation that consecrates and redeems here on Earth. On this count, the Nation of Islam shares something in common with the UFO contactees who brought us a heavenly message of peace on earth. Interesting, eh! Read more
Are space aliens more scientifically and technologically advanced than we on Earth? If so, and if they are visiting Earth in flying saucers or various other UAP, might they bring to our planet spcial gifts? Might aliens bring what we need most: world peace and a solution to our ecological problems? If so, then ETI might look a lot like Santa Claus? Are aliens really our celestial saviors? Read more
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