Quotation
Psalm 8:3-4 (NIV), see below
Reflection
Biologists study life processes – perhaps we should be astounded that biologists exist! [Read more…] about God of humans and testimony (Scholar’s Compass)
InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
Scholar’s Compass is going to Lausanne! ESN isn’t headed to Switzerland, but it is headed to an upcoming Lausanne Movement Creation Care and the Gospel Conference in the US. The end of July conference will bring together evangelical leaders and scholars from the US and Canada. It’s a perfect time for ESN staff to grow in understanding of God’s creation, and a perfect time to share Scholar’s Compass with gathered evangelical leaders.
Handing a Scholar’s Compass booklet to a pastor or professor may make all the difference in whether someone explores this resource after the conference, or forgets about it in a sea of notes. For July only, we have a matching grant to double funds donated towards sharing Scholar’s Compass booklets with conferences such as Lausanne. Click on the link above to help support this effort.
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I confess that climate change is an area where my science enthusiasm wanes a bit. I have no expertise in the relevant domains; I’ve always felt I have little to add to the conversation other than to defer to those who have studied the questions in detail. I am sympathetic to the cause of reducing fossil fuel consumption regardless of climate; if we are consuming more than is being produced, that’s going to be problematic on its own terms in the long run. Still, in light of the Pope’s encyclical it feels like the time has come to at least acknowledge the ongoing conversation.
[Read more…] about Science in Review: Setting the Truth (About the Climate) Free
‘And God blessed [mankind] and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.†… The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.’ Genesis 1:28, 2:15 (NIV)
‘For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21 (NIV) [Read more…] about Navigating Knowledge: Integrating Faith and Palaeoecology (Scholar’s Compass)
The topic of a recent cover story in Christianity Today is shaking up not only the world of missions, but also academia. The World the Missionaries Made is a report on the work of Robert Woodberry, a sociologist currently researching at the Political Science Department of the National University of Singapore. CT’s Executive Editor Andy Crouch calls it the CT cover story of which he is most proud. Its thesis and Woodberry’s work support a remarkable conclusion – that a generation of “conversionary protestant missionariesâ€[1] laid a foundation for democracy around the world. In effect, missions in the 19th and 20th centuries may be one of the most significant factors, and certainly one of the most overlooked, in what CT calls “the health of nations†today: [Read more…] about Missionaries Changed the World Once – Can they do it again?