by Philip Hefner | Jun 6, 2020 | Features
Photo by Grant Whitty/Unsplash The landscape has changed. I shuddered when, in March, the Centers for Disease Control predicted that 100,000 people would die of COVID-19 by June. I estimated that is at least 3,000 deaths per week. As I write this, we have reached...
by Thomas Jay Oord | May 9, 2020 | Features, Uncategorized
Photo by Edwin Hooper via Unsplash [Editor’s note: This article was originally on Thomas Jay Oord’s website.] I’m not surprised some people are blaming God. Maybe “crediting” God is more accurate. I’m reading social media posts saying the coronavirus...
by Kristi Keller | Apr 13, 2020 | Features
Photo by Markus Spiske via Pexels (Editor’s note: This article originally was published in the January 2020 edition of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics and republished here with permission) As Christians, we have the ethical responsibility to be good stewards of God’s...
by Robert Shedinger | Mar 15, 2020 | Features
It is common in mainline Christian circles these days to view religious faith and biological evolution as entirely compatible. Many believe that rejection of evolutionary theory is restricted to fundamentalist Christians who read the Bible literally and view modern...
by Ted Peters | Feb 10, 2020 | Features
Millennial young people, whom we do not see in our church pews on Sundays, frequently complain that the Christian religion is anti-science right along with being anti-everything else they take for granted. When it comes to the people who do sit comfortably in our...
by Ted Peters | Dec 11, 2019 | Features
Watching a seated cat ride across the living room carpet on top of a Roomba is cute because the cat is cute; not because the vacuum cleaner is intelligent. Much of what we call artificial intelligence (AI) or machine intelligence is so common that it prompts at best...
