The result is a wide-ranging exploration of questions, some specific to the present science-faith conversation and some raised perennially by skeptics and curious seekers.Read more…
Book Review: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is the one who steals from the gods (God?) the ability to create life from that which is lifeless.Read more…
Science Book Review: Scientism and Secularism
[Scientism and Secularism] is clearly aimed at fellow Christians who agree with Moreland that science is taking influence away from the church and who need help articulating why theology and religion are still relevant.Read more…
We Are Ahab – Both Hunter and Hunted. A Book Review of Moby Dick
If you can survive through the minutia, what makes Moby Dick such an iconic book, and further, why should anyone bother taking up the massive tome (assuming they haven’t been guilted into it!) and read 500+ pages when anyone knows how the book will end?Read more…
Book Review: Introverts in the Church
Adam’s admission of his own construction of a one-dimensional image of leadership—the most effective leader being a high-paced, always outward-oriented extrovert—is something I personally resonate with as an introvert, and I believe all leaders and leaders-in-training should reckon with and seek to correct.Read more…
Faith and Reason, Part 1
The work of the Holy Spirit and a reasoned case often go hand in hand in Scripture. Read more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.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…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 12
Are there laws that prescribe how the world behaves, or are what we call the laws of nature simply our descriptions of the behavior we observe?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11
If politics applies truth to arrive at policies, and if science is a way of discovering truth, then the two will inevitably be intertwined.Read more…
Reflection: Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places is “an attempt to think with congregations, particularly congregations in cities, about how social science can both help churches become more aware of themselves and of those who live around them” (19).Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 10
It makes sense to me that the mind is not fully reducible to the brain and its activity, and that mental states are causally meaningful. At the same time, it makes sense that the mind is mediated by the brain, arising from the numerous interactions of nerve cells and other biological entities, possibly as an outgrowth of sensory perception turned inward.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 9
The Easter season is a natural time for Christians to reflect on miracles, as the resurrection of Jesus is the central miracle of our tradition.Read more…
Winsome Persuasion. A Teaser
The uniqueness of Winsome Persuasion is that it helps readers prepare to engage by laying the theoretical foundation for understanding what constitutes a counterpublic (section 1), discovering the rhetorical and philosophical tools necessary for engagement (section 2), and wrestling with issues specific to Christian counterpublics (section 3).Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 8
Evolutionary biology is a challenging topic; the history of the Christian church’s reaction to it, doubly so. Continuing a theme running throughout When Science and Christianity Meet, David Livingston identifies the human element as a major complicating factor. Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 7
As far as I can tell you are all the family I was born with, and to the extent it is up to me you are all also the family I choose.Read more…
Review: Thinking Through Creation
With Thinking Through Creation, Chris Watkin succeeds brilliantly in providing a short, clear and accessible volume that sets the reader on a path towards his stated goal of developing a biblical “interpretive grid” to understand culture (p.3).Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 6
How do you reconcile science and the Bible when one can be updated by new data and the other cannot?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 5
If you can sing a children’s song about the Ark, you’ll probably agree with Janet Browne that the Noah story is “deeply embedded” in our minds and culture. A story so familiar and beloved must be addressed with care.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 4
Start talking about morphallactic regeneration and now you’ve really got the attention of this biologist.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 3
How can such a foreign idea feel so familiar? That was my recurring question from William Ashworth’s essay “Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe.” Ashworth’s approach is wide ranging, weaving threads from ancient Greek philosophy with the nascent science of sixteenRead more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 2
How comfortable are you with the role of chance in the study of history?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 1
We’re in the first week of our blog book club on When Science & Christianity Meet and taking a look at chapter 1.Read more…
Science Book Review: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science
Dave & Kate Vosburg bring us a discussion guide to help break the ice on conversations about science and creation.Read more…