Christmas Blues

Last updated on: December 15, 2022 at 10:24 am By Ted Peters

As valuable as Science for the Church is for getting our heads screwed on right, when it comes to the Christmas blues we ask our hearts for care, compassion, and company. Read more

House to Home for Christmas

Last updated on: December 22, 2022 at 3:45 pm By Ted Peters

What turns a house into a home for Christmas, says Professor Derek Nelson, is belonging, comfort, and delight. Read more

O Come Emmanuel

Last updated on: December 22, 2022 at 3:46 pm By Ted Peters

The Advent hymn, O Come O Come Emmanuel, unites today's Christians by giving them ancient Israel's history. Giving histories, rather than taking histories away, fuses horizons of understanding and a new sense of church unity emerges. Read more

Did I lose my Self to Christian Freedom?

Last updated on: January 21, 2023 at 10:41 am By Ted Peters

Christian freedom, paradoxically, enhances libertarian freedom for loving the neighbor. Read more

Creating an AI Co-Creator? Philip Hefner’s Mind

Last updated on: June 16, 2023 at 9:50 am By Ted Peters

Could God's Created Co-Creator create an AI Co-Creator, thereby making humans into gods? What does Philip Hefner think? Read more

Did I lose my Self to my Brain?

Last updated on: May 13, 2023 at 2:37 pm By Ted Peters

Brain and self. What's the relation? Can a neuroscientist rightly say that the self can be reduced to brain processes? Here we look at 5 models of the self to consider. Read more

Did I lose my Self to Determinism?

Last updated on: December 6, 2022 at 11:25 am By Ted Peters

Consciousness and Neuroscience in a Physical World Did I lose my self to determinism? Not if we adopt a 3-Part Determinism ! Did I lose my self to determinism?[1] No. Not if we adopt 3-Part Determinism. Not if we affirm that the self itself is a determiner. In a previous post, “Did I lose my self to my brain?“, we listed five current models of the self: the self as (1) ego continuity; (2) confused higher self; (3) delusion; (4)... Read more

Did I lose my inborn sense of God to Atheism?

Last updated on: May 13, 2023 at 2:05 pm By Ted Peters

Our inborn sensus divinitatis touted by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher seems to be threatened by neuroscience or, more precisely, by materialistic determinism. Atheists like this. Yet, the reality is that it takes a herculean effort to to expunge our hard-core common sense openness to divine transcendence. Read more