Two Mass Shootings Per Day Two mass shootings per day. That’s what I’m thinking about. I am writing this post in northern California. I glance occasionally at the TV screen over my right shoulder. There I see that San Mateo police have just handcuffed a mass shooter–Zhao Chunli–near two coastal mushroom farms near Half Moon Bay. Seven dead so far. I write as he’s being taken in a squad car to jail. Yesterday was a bountiful day for murder too.... Read more
Are the Bible and Big Bang cosmology consonant? Yes. The notion of Time=0 may not provide an eye witness to the biblical notion of the beginning of time and space; but it does provide a scientific character witness. Read more
Known for his leadership in the dialogue between theology & science, Luis Oviedo promotes human flourishing on behalf of the credibility of religion's contribution to prosocial behavior. Read more
Benedict XVI's career as a systematic theologian is well worth remembering. Here we look at his treatment of the soul in (1) the resurrection of the dead and in (2) the stem cell controversy. Read more
The Christian nationalist dragon, like other myths, makes the knight--in this case, the knight is the progressive anti-Christian nationalist, look brave. Would you like to donate? Read more
Religion decline is made obvious not only by the decline of church attendance and the rise of the 'nones'. In the university, the professor of theology is being replaced by a scientist who analyzes the brain circuitry of those odd ducks who are still believing religious beliefs. Will the cognitive science of religion make theology obsolete? In this blog post, we ask Luis Oviedo OFM, who edits the quarterly: Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology. I contend that the public systematic theologian will still earn an honest living by making transparent original sin's influence on society and the human need for divine grace. Read more
For here we see the great and wonderful work of God, that for the sake of poor, wretched humanity He lets His only begotten Son take upon Him human nature and become truly human, and as such endure all weakness and misery, nay take upon Him even our sins, though without sin in Himself, and become a sacrifice for them, in order that we might learn to thank and praise God for this great benefit, that we poor, wretched, nay even condemned persons, today attain to such great honor of becoming one flesh and blood with the Son of God. -- Martin Luther Read more
Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so that He might exist also in the bosom of a mother. Truth, holding the world in place, has sprung from the earth so that He might be carried in the hands of a woman. Read more
We humans do not fashion words in the same way in which Adam and Ever were made by God's Word,. The Father Himself did not beget His only Word in the same way in which He made all things through the Word. For God begot God. But the Begettor and the Begotten are one and the same God. -- Augustine Read more
A Christmas meditation. "God Desired a Harlot," said St. John Chrysostom. What wondrous love is this! Read more
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