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April 06, 2020

Cosmodeism and futurist theology: Tsvi Bisk

April 05, 2020

A Pandemic Turn of Events

April 03, 2020

It all started very quietly and hidden. It felt as if it was a world away. Who could have known that a tiny, unwelcomed intruder could change everything so abruptly? Who could have known that everything that I had faith in, all I was working for, ...

Thoughts on David Deutsch’s constructor theory

March 31, 2020

A Decade Later: Where is the Great Emergence Now?

March 30, 2020

In a previous blog, I introduced two key images from Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence. In this blog, I engage the book critically and reflect on how its ideas are standing the test of time. Twelve years since the books’ publication, to what ex...

Artilects at the Planck scale: Hugo de Garis

March 28, 2020

Reclaiming Our Political Roots | Yohan Hwang

March 25, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Reclaiming Our Political Roots by Yohan Hwang. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. …Is it bad that people have more in...

Robert Forward on God and the soul

March 24, 2020

Jesus Christ: Divine Healer but Mediocre Carpenter

March 22, 2020

I love the meme above! So much so, that it inspired me to write this blog. This will be different from my usual posts that tend to focus on theology, technology and science. Instead, I offer here a personal reflection. It is not inspired in a bibl...

The Great Emergence: How Decay Precedes Renewal

March 18, 2020

In previous blogs, I discussed compelling traits of an emerging Christianity and illustrated how these traits were showing up in the global church through an example in Brazil. In this blog, I describe and engage with key ideas from Philis Tickle’...

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by Artoon Solutions

March 18, 2020

Parallax Header using UIScrollView is one of the most versatile and useful […] The post Create Parallax Header Using UIScrollView Tutorial appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

Sasha Sagan (Carl’s daughter) on life after death

March 18, 2020

How to gather the DNA of every human on the planet in 4 easy steps

by Mark Russell

March 18, 2020

How to gather the DNA of every human on the planet in 4 easy steps Using A.I, create a Highly transmissible virus with just enough fatality rate to create fear. Enact mitigation plan by locking down movement to slow the spread over a year and a h...

Looking for the Bright Side in the Corona Pandemic

March 15, 2020

I would like to step aside from my usual lane of writing to reflect on how the Corona pandemic is affecting us in unexpected ways. As I write this from the US, my kids will be homeschooling starting on Monday while myself and many other co-workers...

Gray Barker’s Book of Monsters (Vol. 1) Now Available in Paperback

by Tony Breeden

March 14, 2020

Originally posted on TonyBreedenBooks.com: Gray Roscoe Barker (1925-1984) is remembered as a ufologist, storyteller and master hoaxer, but he wrote a lot about monsters! After cutting his saucerian teeth on the Flatwoods Monster investigation, Bar...

Cosmism and the possibility of technological resurrection: David Wood

March 13, 2020

Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News | Elizabeth Geitz

March 12, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News by Elizabeth Geitz. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Preface Every morning ...

Joe Rogan Experience #1436 – Adam Curry

by Kristan Harris

March 07, 2020

Adam Curry is a podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur and media personality, known for his stint as VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities personally to create and administer Web sites. Check out his podcast “No Agenda” with new sh...

Space and religion are the likeliest pathways out of decadence: Ross Douthat

March 06, 2020

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes (2)

March 04, 2020

Emerging Christianity Goes South: Pastor Parades in Rio’s Carnaval

March 04, 2020

In the last two blogs, I described major traits of an emerging Christianity. I talked about how believers were finding ways to live out their faith outside prescribed boundaries of institution and tradition. Yet, the best way to describe this move...

Learning to Breathe and Stretch: Yoga as a Spiritual Practice

March 03, 2020

Greatly encouraged by my lovely wife, I decided to start taking Yoga classes in the local gym this year. I must say my first classes were long painful lessons in my body’s inflexibility. Yet, as I stuck with it, I come to enjoy it and sense an imp...

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes

February 29, 2020

Transfiguration on the Other Side of Hell.

February 27, 2020

Have you ever had one of those weeks? I just did. It started last Friday. In the course of seven days… Toxic mold was discovered in our rental home, and our landlords gave us 30 days to move so that they could clean it. My wife s...

Compelling Traits of an Emerging Christianity: Part 2

February 26, 2020

In the previous blog, I outlined three traits of an emerging Christianity. In short, it is de-emphasizing heaven in order to do more on earth; it is integrating with science and finding its way back to nature; it is walking away from strict Monoth...

Muslim and Supermuslim: Toward Islamic transhumanism?

February 25, 2020

The space frontier and our divine cosmic destiny

February 21, 2020

Compelling Traits of An Emerging Christianity: Part 1

February 18, 2020

When you start off on a journey, it often feels lonely. You wrongly assume that you are the exception and everybody else is staying behind. As most often is the case, any spiritual journey starts with a crisis, an enduring dissatisfaction and a st...

Falling in Love

February 14, 2020

I’ve fallen in love many times, in many ways. If God is love, I suspect falling in love is one of the godliest things we do. If we don’t know love we don’t know God.I can’t remember the first time I fell in love. It happened before I could walk, t...

Power of the Creed | Mark Nauroth

February 11, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Power of the Creed by Mark Nauroth. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Foreword: Are We One Body, or Aren’t We? “What...

Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Published!

February 08, 2020

The Green Good News | T. Wilson Dickinson

February 06, 2020

The following is an excerpt from The Green Good News by T. Wilson Dickinson. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Jesus Christ, Radical Environmentalist...

Defining Public Theology for a New Decade (Part II – Moving Outward)

February 04, 2020

In the previous blog, I described the move inward exploring the first part of the following statement: Public theology is prayerful reflection flowing out of love of God for the world as a way to instill hope and longing for the good planet. The “...

Mark of the beast Revealed

by Mark Russell

February 02, 2020

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Mark of the beast Revealed- Like The Matrix

by Mark Russell

February 02, 2020

mark of the beast revealed! Whats up guys it’s markRussell with thesingularity.com. I’m not shot a video forever and it’s SuperBowl Sunday 2020 and this is just been something processing I don’t even know why like I’m choosing to even throw this ...

Running for Our Lives | Robb Ryerse

January 30, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Running for Our Lives by Robb Ryerse. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. The experiment of Congress Camp called into ...

Defining Public Theology for a New Decade (Part I: Moving Inward)

January 29, 2020

In the previous two blogs, I cleared the way for defining theology by first explaining what is not and then emphasizing the importance of location. These entries serve as a necessary preamble to the definition provided at the end of the second. In...

What’s a Christian to do with Bigfoot?

by Tony Breeden

January 26, 2020

My next big book project is called Gray Barker’s Book of Monsters. It surveys the host of monsters, aliens and boogeymen West Virginia ufologist Gray Barker wrote about over the years. It turns out that he was fascinated with Bigfoot and the Abomi...

The Expanse is great science fiction on the cosmic frontier

January 25, 2020

What is Theology? (Part II: Location Matters)

January 24, 2020

In my previous blog, I started on this path to define theology by first outlining what is not. In short, while associated with ministry, biblical studies and doctrine, theology cannot be confined to any of these. You would think I would be ready t...

What is Theology? (Hint: it is NOT what you think)

January 21, 2020

In my seminary years, I was often amused by people’s reactions when I told them I was studying theology. Some looked confused, others elated, some indifferent while others awkwardly tried to change the subject. The standard assumption was that I w...

Honest to Goodness | Martin Prozesky

January 16, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Honest to Goodness by Martin Prozesky. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Overview of a Goodness-based Faith The most...

Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Public draft

January 16, 2020

Dancing with Death

January 16, 2020

I touched Death on the shoulder. He turned. He looked just the same as I remembered him—dark hair, dark eyes, full lips, square jaw, attractive by design. He smelled like a forest just before it rains. He recognized me instantly and said unemotion...

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January 12, 2020

India Awakens presents: New book on physics and ancient Indian traditions

January 11, 2020

Qualifying for Exaltation

January 08, 2020

The Church released the new Young Women theme a couple months ago. It reads as follows: I am a beloved daughter of Heavenly Parents, with a divine nature and eternal destiny. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, I strive to become like Him. I seek and ...

The Intimacy of Transhumanism

January 07, 2020

There’s a tendency to think that transhumanism is robotic, cold, impersonal, abstract, or distant, but the truth is that transforming ourselves with technology is a deeply intimate and immediate experience. When I say “technology,” I’m defining it...

There’s a God in My Closet | Ben DeLong

January 07, 2020

The following is an excerpt from There’s a God in My Closet by Ben DeLong. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. I don’t do well with tense situations, p...

Cheers to the Queers