The recent publicity spike for the upcoming Christian Symposium on Aliens, to be held this July in Roswell, NM, has prompted me to blog about its content. This symposium focuses on the view that what people think are aliens (mostly from contactee and abductee...
aliens as demons
UFOs: Physical or Metaphysical? Is the Answer Yes?
Check out the post by Mac Tonnies (thanks to Nick Redfern for posting this). I think much of what Mac says here is quite coherent. I've recently offered to do a lecture in Roswell next summer on the topic of why, in terms of biblical theology, intelligent alien life...
Are Christians the Only Ones Who Consider ET Evil?
I wanted to share some thoughts on the most recent Partridge article I posted. Basically, I want to make sure you all caught some of his more important ideas, and to share some thoughts of my own with respect to those ideas. First, Partridge lays out his thesis very...
Alien Demonology: Its Christian Roots
I'm going to be blogging through this article over the next few weeks. It is one of the few scholarly articles that deals with demonology and the belief in aliens. It's written by Christopher Partridge, the same religious studies scholar who edited the book UFO...
Stopping Abductions with Prayer?
Greg Bishop recently blogged about the experiences of some of acquaintances (he missed the event itself) at a recent session during the Roswell UFO Festival. You can read the full entry for yourself, as well as comments, but I'd like to say a few things about both...
UFOs, ETs, and Religion (Balducci’s Conundrum, Part 3)
In the last post, I quoted Christopher Partridge's article in UFO Religions as follows: "Whilst there are some differences between the theosophical masters / mahatmas of wisdom (who were usually thought to reside in Tibet), and the early accounts of aliens, in actual...