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Is your soul an immaterial substance that, with a soulechtomy, can be extracted from your body? Is the soul made out of an immortal material? Or, is it better to use the word, "soul," to refer to the whole person that includes body, soul, and spirit? Substance dualism treats the soul as a spiritual substance.

In this 2024 election cycle, I'm worried. Why? Here's Ted's Timely Take: when it's power vs goodness, most people will choose power. When it's power vs goodness, what do you elect?

Introducing Michael Morch's new book, SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY AS A RATIONALLY JUSTIFIED PUBLIC DISCOURSE ABOUT GOD. By exacting scientific criteria such as coherence, what the theologian conceives in the church become intelligible to the wider culture. Public Systematic Theology is scientific and coherent.

Public systematic theology necessitates engagement in interreligious dialogue and comparative theology when engaging in discourse clarification and worldview construction. Public systematic theology and comparative theology

Does God exist? Does God quench the thirst within our souls to be at one with the Beyond and the Intimate? A rational proof for God's existence gets us almost there, but not quite. We need special revelation to confirm the existence and the presence of God. If God is, then the beyond and the infinite meet in our soul.

Whereas sin-talk alone squashes our sense of self-worth, grace-talk announces our value in the eyes of God. So, let's put sin-talk and grace-talk together into a single grammar of faith. Sin-talk and grace-talk bolster self-worth.

The bombastic vitriol spewed by the anti-Christian nationalsm movement is really aimed, I think, at American evangelical Christians. Evangelicals Against Christian Nationalism should be applauded by progressives.

Big History and Evangelical Theology mix like oil and water. Evangelical theologian Roger E Olson is sharply critical of the naturalistic and materialistic assumptions made by big historians. Big History and EvangelicaL Theology? Like oil and water.

Getting lost in depression can be a frightening even harrowing experience. What steps might a teenager -- or any of us, for that matter? -- take to rise above depression and regain a sense of flourishing? I'm lost in depression. What's the question?

Existential questions prompt anxiety, the fear of nonbeing. We cannot escape them. We all must face anxiety, dread, and meaninglessness. Are there theological answers to these ultimate questions? Existential questions prompt anxiety, the fear of nonbeing.