One of my very favorite Medium writers, Graham Pemberton, took the time to do a careful analysis of my effort to create a sort of Theology of (Nearly) Everything. I am honored that he would do this. He asks some questions and makes some comments that call for a response…

The remarkable story of a wealthy and godly Gentile patriarch may provide a surprising and enigmatic answer. Karma is the idea that good begets good and bad begets bad. It is not only a core principle of Buddhism, but it is also deeply ingrained in our culture. It is perhaps…

In the Philebus of Plato, the ancient philosopher asked the question posed in this series called Top Down or Bottom Up. He said: “Wether we are to affirm that all existing things, and this fair scene which we call the universe, are governed by the influence of the irrational…

Christmas reflection 2021 — The fire is going and I’m listening to Christmas music via Alexa. I prefer classical Christmas music so I hear magnificent renditions of the Messiah and right now it’s Pavarotti singing “Venite Adoramus,” O Come All Ye Faithful. We are reminded over and over with the commercial messages inundating us…

Wave-particle duality.gif From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repositorycommons.wikimedia.org Discovering the wave/particle duality served to undermine most accepted ideas of reality. Quantum mechanics doesn’t make much sense, but science have demonstrated it accurately describes reality. Some argue those writing on spirituality should not attempt to include quantum physics in their contemplations. I disagree.

This is the third post in a brief series Understanding Spirit. The task here is to try to understand the Spirit as the Holy Spirit and Third Person of the Trinity as drawn from biblical teaching as well as from our understanding of the universe through science and other non-biblical…

I have a friend who has very different political leanings than mine and quite different spiritual beliefs. I greatly enjoy talking with him because unlike with many others, we can discuss these things over a cocktail and come away better understanding each other and even learning some things that can…

In a previous post I introduced the topic of Spirit, or the Holy Spirit which within biblical theism is understood as the Third Person of the Trinity. The analysis here is not based on biblical sources alone, but is an attempt to produce a theology or theory of the Spirit…

Can we arrive at an understanding of the Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, in a way that includes both biblical and extra-biblical ideas about creation, life, spiritual reality and universal consciousness? Does the Holy Spirit get the attention it deserves? The Pentecostal forms of Christianity certainly focus attention…