It’s Evolution Weekend in Lab and Pew. I belong to a group called the Clergy Letter Project which designates the 2nd weekend of February each year to “Evolution Weekend.” Let's rename this "Science Sunday" to address (1) the anti-science movement plus (2) the militant atheist movement. Read more
Should the public theologian develop a scientifically informed Theology of Nature? Yes, indeed. Should astrobiology inform astrotheology? Yes, indeed. Should astrotheology inform public theology? Yes, indeed. Read more
Like the Mighty Mississippi which overflows its banks each spring and inundates the landscape, today’s social media inundates our psyches with an overflow of alternative facts, fake news, and vicious ideologies. This is disorienting. Our psyches cry out for an integrated worldview wherein both little things and big things make sense. Read more
Which do you prefer: radical life extension? Cybernetic immortality? Resurrection of the body? Or, just death as endless oblivion? Transhumanism offers the first two, while Christianity offers the third. Take your pick. Read more
Should we Christians, Jews, and Muslims board the transhumanist train? Should we ask for our own coach labeled, "Religious Transhumanism"? If so, how far should we ride? All the way to the posthuman destination? Is a religious transhumanism conceivable? Read more
Frankly, I've been flabbergasted at the hurricane of anti-evangelical Patheos posts analyzing the church crisis. Like flinging feathered missiles at a dart target, critics throw at evangelical churches mud, invective, and vitriol. Read more
What is public theology? We will ask Rudolf von Sinner. He will tell us that there are many definitions. Even so, public theologians can gather together and focus on important matters confronting the public sphere. Read more
Oh, no! Not again? Yes, again. Another law enforcement officer shooting and the killing of an unarmed black person. This one happened at 2:15 pm, Saturday, January 8, 2022, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Off duty Cumberland County Sheriff deputy Lt. Jeffrey Hash put to death Jason Walker, age 37. Whether Hash hit Walker with his truck or Walker jumped on to Hash’s hood and windshield is yet to be discerned. Witnesses are not agreed on what happened. Regardless, Walker suffered... Read more
The Public Theology of Binoy Jacob Patheos PT 5004 What is public theology? Let me answer by introducing you to Pax Lumina. More importantly, let me introduce you to Binoy Jacob, S.J., its managing editor. In Luke 4, Jesus quotes Isaiah. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let... Read more
Short Prayers? What about Beauty? O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!…When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers…Psalm 8:1,3a Before we can construct a theology of beauty, we need an experience of beauty. Nature’s beauty–in an uncanny way–reveals the God of beauty and the beauty of God. Yosemite Alpenglow “Now came the solemn, silent evening. Long, blue spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first... Read more
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