The prospect of no-kill cultivated meat products could spell reduction if not the end of large grazing pastures, methane pollution, and slaughterhouses. But, will vegetarians and vegans approve? What are the theological and ethical implications? Read more
Christus Victor--Christ as-our-victorious-champion or Christ as-our-liberator--might be the most dramatic answer to the question: how does Jesus save? But, it's only one among six that is both biblical and theological. Read more
This is part one of two on "Cross, Creation, and The Powers: The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado" United Methodist pastor Sharon Delgado incarnates public theology like a ripe peach gushes with the nectar of heaven. Read more
According to Max Fisher in "The Chaos Machine," social media greedily alters the way we think by stimulating outrage-generated dopamine flow. This maximizes your and my screen engagement time which, in turn, maximizes revenue from advertising. Silicon Valley geniuses have discovered how sin works. Now, when will they discover repentance? Read more
Jesus is the True Teacher, an Example, and Moral Influence. Is this how Jesus saves? This is the second in our series of posts on Atonement. Read more
We need to be guided by a vision of the global common good that will take us beyond the exclusivism of the church of economism to a just, sustainable, participatory, and planetary society. Read more
To fight truth decay, I prescribe debunking disinformation. I propose an alliance including scientists, skeptics, and theologians: the SST Alliance. Read more
By myth-busting, we show how the 7 principal tenets of Milton Friedman's economism are destructive to the common good. Read more
After comparing models of creation in Big Bang cosmology, the multiverse, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian mythology, Big History, and feminist theology, we introduce Ted Peters' proleptic eschatology: the Big Bang genesis of creation gains its essence from the new creation proleptically anticipated in Jesus’ Easter. Read more
The fireworks over Penal Substitution Theory makes us think that atonement itself is at stake. Not so. We've got six biblical and theological models to select from. Which is the best? Let's look at them all. Read more
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