Assistant/Associate Professor of Biblical Studies - Gammon Theological Seminary | Atlanta, GA

🔔 #theologyjobs Assistant/Associate Professor of Biblical Studies in Atlanta, GA:

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The City of the Mute Legislator

AI paints neighborhoods red and blue – and nobody talks about the Law.
Silent legislator without grace, without acquittal.
This is not neutral.
This is power.

New piece:
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#AIethics #DigitalEthics #Theology

Revelation Without Armageddon: Why Catholic Doctrine Resists End-Times Politics The Catholic Church lives in expectation of Christ’s return, but not to anticipate its timing or to identify its precursors in specific political developments.

Not all Christians read the end times the same way.

Catholic doctrine rejects prophetic timelines, and with them, the idea that war fulfills history.

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#Catholic #Eschatology #ReligionAndPolitics #ForeignPolicy #Theology

Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Christliche Sozialethik - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg bietet Stelle als Universitätsprofessorin / Universitätsprofessor (m/w/d) für Christliche Sozialethik in Würzburg - jetzt bewerben!

🔔 #theologyjobs Professorship in Christian social ethics at @uni-wuerzburg.de

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THIS MONTH

Join us on 22nd April, where Dr Joshua Furnal, lecturer in Systematic Theology at SPPU, will launch his new book "Being before God", along with an enlightening discussion.

🎫 Please RSVP your attendance to specialevents@spcm.ie

#stpatricks #maynooth #booklaunch #theology

Random Thought VI — The Idol

AI isn’t neutral.
It changes what — and whom — we trust.

Maybe the real issue isn’t what AI can do,
but what we start looking for in it.

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#AI #Theology #Ethics #Faith

Random Thought V — Sin Without a Sinner

AI cannot sin.

But it can become the place where no one takes responsibility.

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#AI #Theology #Ethics

God Didn’t Create Life — Life Built Itself Why seeing life as a self-constructor changes everything about our place in the Universe.

🧪 “God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”

In this new article on Medium I discuss why life 🧬 is the most interesting thing that can exist in the universe. The link below 👇 gives you free access.

#science #biology #theology #chemistry

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One Presbyterian’s view of the Shroud of Turin — Edgewater Presbyterian Church Despite our history of iconoclasm, the value of something like the Shroud isn't necessarily about whether it is real in a laboratory sense.

Let’s talk about the #ShroudofTurin and why it actually matters

#theology #reformed #presbyterian #pcusa @pcusa.bsky.social

TST is grateful, and proud, to be affiliated with the University of Toronto, with TST offering 10 theological degrees conferred conjointly by a TST member college and the University of Toronto. See what we have to offer! www.tst.edu/programs #theology

Random Thought IV — The False Comforter

AI can comfort—without being affected.

That’s not a strength.
That’s the confusion.

“The false comforter”:
physhbournes-sundries.blogspot.com/2026/03/rand...
#AI #Theology #Ethics

Random Thought III — The AI Flattens

AI flattens—not by error, but by omission.

A short essay on doctrinal flattening and the limits of AI in theology:
physhbournes-sundries.blogspot.com/2026/03/rand...

#AI #Theology #Ethics

Beyond Ritual: What the Eucharist Reveals About Justice and Belonging A Global Struggle for Belonging

Beyond Ritual: What the Eucharist Reveals About Justice and Belonging
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#Eucharist #Justice #Belonging #Religion #Theology #BlackTheology #LiberationTheology

Random thought II — Ex opere operato

The form is perfect.
The service happens.
But the Word is missing.
Ex opere operato 2026:
AI writes what the preacher once wrestled for.
Check who is really holding the pen.

Splitter II:
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#WordAndMachine #Theology

#BenjaminFranklin tried to conquer every #sin on his list. He got them all — except one.
The last essay in my #Lenten series on the #sevendeadlysins #pride #humility #Lent #HolyWeek #ProgressiveChristianity #Theology #UnitedMethodist brohammett.substack.com/p/dust-and-d...

Even this is part of the Incarnation. Shouldn't this challenge our theology and, thus, our practice?"

(From my book, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus' Path of Other-Centered, Co-Suffering Love. Live210 Media. 2025. 169.)

5/5
#Crucifixion
#Solidarity
#Theology

He doesn't just walk among them. He becomes one of them, not in some symbolic way, but quite literally. He suffers with them. He experiences degradation with them. He is treated as less than human with them. He dies with them.

4/5
#Crucifixion
#Solidarity
#Theology

We turn this event into the final puzzle piece that completes the picture of our salvation story. Before we turn away from the horrific scene, notice what our minds don't want to accept. We say that Jesus walked among and welcomed outcasts. But notice.

3/5
#Crucifixion
#Solidarity
#Theology

Jesus dies on the cross, flanked by men society would rather kill than deal with. This happens so often, and in so many ways, it's now part of the background buzz of civilization.

I know our minds flinch, immediately gilding the scene with atonement theology.

2/5
#Crucifixion
#Solidarity
#Theology

Good morning.

"On Golgotha, Jesus is one of three. Those three are only that day's roster out of thousands crucified. All those crucified by Rome are just a fraction of the countless shamed, tortured, and killed at the effect of powers beyond their control.

1/5
#Crucifixion
#Solidarity
#Theology

Random thoughts. Marginal Notes on Word, Machine, and Action. — Splinter I: The Beak Is Crooked

AI doesn’t lie.
It’s statistics.
And its statistics have no room for simul iustus et peccator or deus absconditus.
Believe not a word it says.
Check everything.
Sapere aude.

New note:
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#WordAndMachine #Theology

Why #ChristianNationalists Believe Trump is "Anointed" for #Armageddon!

#altright #Christiannationalist #American #Christian #nationalism #DonaldTrump #biblical #theocracy #indoctrination #US #war #god #theology #democracy #schoolvouchers #SaveAct #publiceducation

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The Sparrow: A Novel scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life

The Sparrow: A Novel

"scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life "

Sale: $19 to $1.99

by Mary Doria Russell
Rating: 4.4/5 (5,902 Reviews)

#ScienceFiction #LiteraryFiction #FirstContact #Theology #Jesuit #Books #BookSky

Sunday’s Readings: Easter Day Acts 10.34-43 or Jeremiah 31.1-6; Psalm 118.1-2,14-24; Colossians 3.1-4 or Acts 10.34-43; John 20.1-18 or Matthew 28.1-10 IN MATTHEW’s resurrection Gospel, Mary Magdalene and another Mary go to the tomb. This is a variation on John’s version, with...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 5 April 📖

#lectionaryreadings #sundaysreadings #easterday #theology #churchtimes

Book review: Life on the Breadline: Theology, poverty and politics in an age of austerity by Chris Shannahan LIFE ON THE BREADLINE is a deeply passionate book — strident, opinionated, sometimes convoluted, and scornful of politicians and theologians alike — and yet embedded in dedicated personal experience and research. The author follows a similar path ...

"This is the necessary prophetic voice of an archetypical Christian Dissenter."

📚This book is more radical than C of E bishops are, says Robin Gill

#Books #Poverty #Theology

Plenty of food for thought here: well worth a read.
#BookReview
#Theology
#BookSky

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Regeneration
(Theology)

#Theology #Philosophy
#Regeneration #Rebirth #Renewal

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Sunday’s Readings: Good Friday Isaiah 52.13-53.12; Psalm 22; Hebrews [10.16-25 or] 4.14-16; 5.7-9; John 18.1-19.42 THE Passion is action-packed. People move from scene to scene: garden, prison, palace, hillside. There is violence and cruelty: scourging, mockery, shame. Tense se...

Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 3 April 📖

#lectionaryreadings #sundaysreadings #thepassion #theology #churchtimes

Some MA funding at Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science!

#Masters #HistSci #Theology #PhilSci #skystorians

My new video is a quick fact check on a claim made by an anti-Bahai web site called "Bahai Cult." The story is that on February 23, 1914, Abdu’l-Baha hosted Baron Rothschild, in Palestine. It turns out to be a mix-up
#Bahai #theology #AbdulBaha

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