by Bruce Booher | Oct 17, 2019 | Commentary
Photo by Chromatograph via Unsplash From time to time, someone will say something like “One of these days, science will be able to explain everything and we won’t need religion.” This idea badly misunderstands both science and religion. Let’s examine what this idea...
by Susan Barreto | Jul 12, 2019 | Commentary
Photo by N. Manginas via The Echumenical Patriarchate As the song goes, so it is in today’s world. But that doesn’t mean theologians, seminarians and churchwide organizations are not up to the task of “greening” how they do what they do in the faith...
by George L. Murphy | Jun 7, 2019 | Commentary
Photo by Marija Zaric on Unsplash [Editor’s note: This month we are re-running one of our most popular commentary pieces from our Theological Editor George Murphy. This essay originally ran in October 2015.] Several years ago we had a display for the Lutheran Alliance...
by Susan Barreto | May 8, 2019 | Commentary
At the ERT meeting/Credit: Susan Barreto So whenever two or more church folk are gathered these days there is not only typically coffee, but there is often a sense of anxiety. Putting a name to that source of anxiety is difficult at best and nearly impossible to voice...
by Susan Barreto | Apr 10, 2019 | Commentary
Credit: Mahkeo via Unsplash So this time of year the question of “What did you give up for Lent?” often comes up in Christian circles. Chocolate? Meat? How about fossil fuels? Giving up one’s car and electricity may be quite a Lenten sacrifice, but it was a discussion...
by Bruce Booher | Mar 7, 2019 | Commentary
I would like to thank Dr. Ted Peters for his excellent introduction to Astrotheology and for his pioneering work in the field long before the name Astrotheology was coined. I would like to expand on one theme Dr. Peters raised and then share a concern I have. Dr....
