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2026-03-06

Panentheism: Why matter Matters

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In our modern age, we are often haunted by a "disenchanted" world: A cosmos where matter is viewed as mere mechanical "stuff...
2025-05-16

On the Importance of being Oysters

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An Exploration of Humanism via Oysterhood I am reading through Daniel Klein's wonderful little book " Every Time I Find the Meaning...
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2024-03-09

Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope

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Recently a friend of mine posted a neat quote by Wittgenstein: One can imagine an animal angry, fearful, sad, joyful, startled. But hopeful?...
2023-12-02

The Panentheism of Creation in Christ

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Recently a friend online asked me a great question: "Can you tell me why you think (if you do) the creature / Creator distinction is es...
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2023-11-19

Wisdom after Bulgakov: A Trinitarian Sophiology

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I recently had an extended discussion with a couple of friends about the nature of Divine Wisdom, which is called Sophia (in Greek) and Hokh...
2023-10-31

All is Center: CS Lewis’ vision of the Great Dance

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Frequently I have discussions with people who want to de-center humanity from the most important place in the universe, in order to help us ...
2022-07-27

The Metaphysics of Materialism

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Materialist determinism is a perpetually popular view in the modern world. It is the metaphysical viewpoint which denies metaphysics by posi...
2022-05-28

De Chardin on the necessity of evil in a finite creation

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For three decades I have actively pondered and written on the problem of evil and sin . We could sum it up this way: If God is so good, how ...
2020-05-16

Theological Topology: Placing the Trinity in Reality

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At first glance, topology and theology have nothing to do with each other. Theology , on one hand, is "the rational discussion of God...
2020-04-03

When Words Fail

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How both Theistic and Nontheistic language fails to describe Ultimate Reality In the constant back and forth between Theists and Nonthe...
2020-04-02

Mundane Mysticism

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Why do we look for a Divine Realm  Of depth and richness  Beyond the elaborately embroidered world  We live and move and exist within?...
2020-01-25

The Persistence of the Fact/Value Distinction

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I have encountered several attempts to derive moral values from empirical observation, from " The Moral Landscape: How Science Can D...
2019-12-28

Five Persistent Illusions: Ownership, Separation, Time, Death, and Self

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Four seductive myths beguile us, and five persistent illusions blind us to the Reality of Love that we live and move and exist within: Ow...
2019-11-13

On Chins and Spandrels, God and Gaps

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The other day I had a conversation with a student and a biology teacher about whether human chins have a purpose. Yes, chins. As in the o...
2018-10-01

Models of Metaphysical Cosmology

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In my philosophy class my students are trying to wrap their minds around what is different about how Plato and Aristotle viewed Reality,...
2018-07-09

Credo: The Story that Reads Us [A Mini-Systemic Theology]

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This was originally written in 2006 in partial fulfillment of requirements for Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology at South...
2017-12-17

A Theology of Jesus and Aliens

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I recently got into a discussion with someone about the growing evidence that our planet has been visited by Extraterrestrial Beings fo...
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2017-07-25

On Noah’s Flood and the Nephilim

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I often have friends and congregants who decide to read the Bible from front to back. But getting past the first few chapters is a formid...
2017-03-10

Chasing Falsifiability down the Rabbit Hole to Transcendence

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In my Philosophy of Religion class the other day, a student brought up Karl Popper’s principle of “falsifiability” as a criteria for whet...
2015-03-23

The Crisis Point of Human Evolution

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This will probably wind up being one of my more hokey blog posts, and it will probably bear the stamp of staying up too late at night wa...