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Since 2017 the movement pressing for government disclosure of UAP documents has picked up avalanche force. It is now crashing down on the U.S. Congress. It is also now widely recognized and accepted that scientists should have access to as much data as possible to conduct research on anomalous aerial reports. Resistance to disclosure is frequently justified by government claims that disclosure would put national security in jeopardy. Most scientific researchers accept this. Yet, some voices seem...

The UAP Transparency Act of 2024 give scientific ufologists hope that government revelations will tell us the truth about Unidentified Flying Objects. But, if national security documents remain Top Secret, can we trust those which get declassified? Will the UAP Transparency Act really give us disclosure?

Karen Lebacqz's Christian viewpoint on abortion is illuminating. Stop trying to find the point in a pregnancy when a fetus becomes human, she says. Instead, accept the fact that some women face a crisis and the church community should provide compassionate support. That is the central issue. Karen Lebacqz's Christian Viewpoint on Abortion

Digital immortality or cybernetic immortality via whole brain emulation is what transhumanists offer us. We can then live a conscious rational life in the computer cloud in disembodied form. Does this sound more likely than the New Testament promise of bodily resurrection? Digital immortality vs bodily resurrection?

Emergent dualism relies on the history of evolution to create a new whole -- a whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- and one new whole is the human soul. The nonphysical soul emerges from its physical past. Emergent dualism as another soul option

Are frozen embryos really children? The Supreme Court of Alabama forces us to ask this question. Let's turn to the Protestant justification of a "yes" answer by Chief Justice Tom Parker and then examine the "yes" answer posed by Roman Catholic bioethicists. My own answer is negative. Alabama forces this question.

Religion and Science Weekend, sponsored by the Clergy Letter Project, will be February 9-11, 2024. Let's ask the scientists in our congregations to stand up to tell us what they do and why their work contributes to the common good. Religion and Science Weekend Feb 9-11, 2024

In Ad Theologiam Promovendam of November 2023 ,Pope Francis opened the Vatican windows for the winds of contextual theology to blow through. Will the gusts from ecumenical and interreligious whirlwinds as well as the tornadoes from natural science blow the pages of inherited dogma off desk theology? Pope Francis invites contextual theology

It is slightly paradoxical for me, a pupil of Justin Rosenberg, to write about the future of political science. In his 2016 research article International Relations in the Prison of Political Science, Rosenberg had exhorted the students of International Relations to break free from the ‘prison’ i.e.

Are UFOs Our Celestial Saviors? The experience of sighting a UAP or being abducted by aliens intermix with fictional portrayals. The classic 1951 movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," affected the UFO culture for decades. Of particular significance is the alien message to Earth: stop testing nuclear weapons and work for world peace! Are UFOs Our Celestial Saviors?