soft power, weak power, persuasive vs coercive power, persuasion vs coercion, freedom and process-relational theology, the hobbit, hobbit and smaug, homebrewed christianity, tripp fuller, tolkien, axis of co-creativity, axis of codependency, meaning of suffering, problem of evil, theodicy,random & systematic, determinate & indeterminate, order & chaos, chance & necessity, pattern & paradox, continuity & discontinuity, symmetry & asymmetry. equiplausibility principle, equiprobability principle, butterfly effect, random acts of kindness, universalism, free will, divine intervention, divine indifference, divine interactivity, divine interaction, divine involvement, divine interference, semiotic realism, buddhist methodological nominalism, metaphysical agnosticism
