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Truly Human in a Partially Human World

What does it mean to be truly human? Without using philosophical abstractions or complex terminology, I am impelled to reflect on this question, as we celebrate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The story of Jesus is one of light and darkness, good and evil, hope and fear, an ambiguous existence of living within the stream of opposites. It is a tragedy when preachers insert God into Jesus’ life, as if he were ontologically divine and appearing in human form. They say things like: “Jesus knew he was God but went to the cross knowing that he would be raised from the dead” or “God gave Jesus the power to save us on the cross.” The tragedy is the...
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Faith Under-Reconstruction

I imagine my faith surrounded with “Under Reconstruction” roadsigns. I am among multitudes of “Former Christians.” We move along a broad spectrum including “new atheists,” “nones” (no religious affiliation checking…

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God 2.0 and Techno Sapien Life

The introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 created quite a stir, as artificial intelligence can now mimic human intelligence. The ability of a machine to write an essay of complex…

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Workshop Series: Revelation in an Emerging Universe: Faith, Science, and Pastoral Ministry

If someone were to ask, “where is God?” Could you respond? Would you raise your finger in the air and point to the sky? Or would you turn the finger…

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Webinar: Breaking Down or Breaking Through?

The rapid development of artificial intelligence, including the new chat GPT software, has created deep fear in a world already facing a dire future due to global warming.  The influx…

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God of the Im/Possible

With the resurrection of Jesus Christ, time is interrupted and we are startled by a deeper reality: God is doing new things. Underneath a world racked by war, racial hatred,…

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The Wisdom of the Cross

The paschal mystery is the center of Christian theology. The re-enactment of the last supper and the betrayal of Jesus, followed by his sentence of crucifixion, speak to us of…

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Webinar: Scripture Meets Science

The greatest obstacle to religion today does not come so much from atheists but from the neo-foundationalists whose fundamental tenets of religion claim ontological certainty. These are the religious fundamentalists…

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Does God Suffer?

The name “God” reflects the incomprehensible wellspring of love at the heart of an expanding universe. The Christian understanding of God’s relational nature begins with the first divine person, the…

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Seeing with Two Pairs of Eyes

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf,” writes Annie Dillard.[1] This simple…

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