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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...
2024-03-17

You are a Theophany

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Every single person is a theophany. May we all see God’s image in each and every person God puts in our path, and welcome them as we would w...
2023-06-26

Imagining a Divine Covenant with Artificial Intelligence

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What if God made a Covenant with Artificial Intelligence in a way similar to God's many Covenants with different groups of people in Scr...
2023-04-09

Easter and the philosophy of embodiment and matter

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Around Easter, I was in another discussion about the necessity of the resurrection for the hope proclaimed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Th...
2022-12-07

Making Artificial Intelligence in the Image of God?

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As we have recently read about in the New York Times and the Atlantic , very powerful Artificial Intelligence programs have now become avai...
2022-06-06

Why you matter

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Life can be difficult, and we all have days when we wonder who we are, why we are here, and if any of this matters. And when I have days lik...
2021-01-23

A Provocation on Individualism

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Western individualism, in which the self is essentially divorced from communal interconnections and social responsibility, is nothing more t...
2020-05-29

Racial Questions from a Suburban Kid

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The following is a personal reflection intended to spur public discussion. It is the result of several conversations, online and in person, ...
2020-05-03

The costs of being embodied in a virtual world

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I recently read a great article from the BBC on why video calls are so exhausting for so many people. It lists a number of physical and ...
2020-04-19

Sapiens, Evolution, and Wrath of Khan

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A couple of years back I read Yuval Harari’s book Sapiens . Great read. On one hand, I am completely on board with his evolutionary metap...
2020-02-17

Divine Authorship, the Incarnation, and human avatars

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Jesus replied: “Isn't it written in your Law, I have said, you are gods?” Scripture calls those to whom God's word came “gods”, a...
2019-08-13

On the Nature of Sainthood

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What makes someone a “saint” as opposed to someone who is just popular and persuasive and affable? What makes someone genuinely deep rath...
2018-11-11

A Provocation on the Humanist God

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At this stage in history I feel the need to qualify the statement “I believe in God” with what KIND of God I believe in. It is no longer...
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...
2017-09-06

Theology and Artificial Intelligence

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This is a longish quote, but it was nice to read a Christian Theologian who is making these kinds of arguments. The context is an article wh...

Trinity and Identity

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I want here to give a brief account of who we are as created persons living in a reality upheld by the Triune God. There are a baffling...
2016-12-04

A Short Meditation on Evolution and Original Sin

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This summer a friend asked me a great question about how Evolution and Original Sin can relate to each other. To get to my answer, I mu...
2013-09-11

Creation and Evolution, Science and Scripture

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The following is an introductory essay I use in many of my classes to approach the questions raised by Science and Scripture. At the end ...
2013-03-30

On Soul as Emergent and Eternal

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Once I had a conversation with a friend of mine who teaches science and who is agnostic. We were talking about whether or not the soul ...