From Scholar’s Compass to conference funding to Urbana 18, how we hope to support you this year. Read more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
People of Color, Outward Appearances, and Academia: Lessons from 80s Pop Culture
In the late 1980s, there was a popular television show called 21 Jump Street. Johnny Depp and friends portrayed cops in their twenties. Because they were too young looking to be taken seriously, they went undercover in high schools to take down drug dealers, gangs, etc.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Strange Survivors by Oné Pagán
You are all but guaranteed to learn something new about God’s creativity as expressed through nature’s endless forms and to enjoy a chuckle in the process.Read more…
A Sower Went Out to Sow. . . .
Today’s post on the Parable of the Sower and the Soils is the second in a series exploring Parables Jesus Told. The first post, Entrusted . . ., considered the Parable of the Three Servants, or, The Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), blog.emergingscholars.org/2018/05/entrusted/.Read more…
How should Christians in the sciences choose an epistemology? (STEAM Grant Series)
I used to teach a college course called “Epistemology” but the name scared off too many potential students, so we changed it to “Theories of Knowledge.”Read more…
Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
Three Questions for Lectio Vocatio
I encourage you to take a few minutes this week to give these 3 questions prayerful consideration. Read more…
Adam, Where are You? (STEAM Grant Series)
How much have you read about different models of human origin, from either a scientific or theological perspective?Read more…
Science in Review: Just Gotta Get Right Outta Here
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Every Job a Parable by John Van Sloten
The purpose of “Every Job a Parable” is to help kindle a new kind of vocational imagination, to help you experience God at work
more, and to help you read the parable that is your job.Read more…
Entrusted . . .
In the Parable of the Three Servants, or, The Talents, Jesus calls his disciples to be ready. They have been entrusted with the Lord’s work, the very Kingdom of God.Read more…
How did God Create? Different Views Christians Hold (STEAM Grant Series)
The perspective from which we view the evidence determines what we see and what is hidden. Read more…
Science Corner: What Even Is Real?!?
Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Spiritual Rhythm by Mark Buchanan
We’re looking for summer reading suggestions from our readers. Blog editor Hannah Eagleson shares one of her favorites to help get us started. Read more…
STEAM Grant Series: How can we engage origins questions well?
Are you interested in talking about origins issues, but don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone.Read more…
Science Corner: We Can Remember It for You Wholesnail
By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.Read more…
A Prayer for Those Finishing a Semester
One end of semester day during my own PhD study years, I went down to my local coffee shop and ordered a latte. The barista took one look at me and said, “An extra shot, then?”Read more…
How Can the History of Science Encourage the Church? Part 3: Modern Christianity (STEAM Grant Series)
What ideas shaped how we see the history of science today? Read more…
Science Corner: Sympathy for the Bedeviled
If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?Read more…
Ice Cream, Work, and Liturgy: Formed to Work for the Glory of God Conference
I didn’t expect ice cream to be such an important part of the most recent conference I attended. Read more…
How Can the History of Science Encourage the Church? Part 2: Medieval Christianity (STEAM Grant Series)
When it comes to faith and science, what can we learn from the Middle Ages? Read more…
Science in Review: Thor, Thanos and Theology
Not only does this theology equate divinity with supernatural power to the exclusion of power manifest as nature, it also seems to only consider power.Read more…
Advice for Graduates: 5 Things To Do as You Enter the Next Phase of Life
Beyond the celebrations, parties, and bittersweet memories, graduation can be a defining point in who you are.Read more…