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Fall Snapshot: Depending on Christ

November 11, 2016 by Anonymous Leave a Comment

This summer, we pioneered a new Summer Snapshot series that shared brief reflections  from people in our network on their experience this summer. The series was so well received we've decided to expand it to other seasons. We're delighted to share this Fall Snapshot from an emerging scholar in psychology. Written a bit earlier this fall, this piece is deeply relevant as November busyness takes off.   As an aspiring psychologist, I was recently in a training session that taught us how to validate clients' … [Read more...] about Fall Snapshot: Depending on Christ

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Vocational Snapshot Tagged With: calling, Clinical Psychology, fall snapshot, grad school, graduate school, higher education, identity, mapping your academic career, psychology, stress, transition, vocation

Trouble in Mind: Attending to the Interplay of Mind and Body in Treating Depression

October 23, 2015 by Don Calbreath Leave a Comment

Psalm 139:13-14 (NASB):  For You  formed my  inward parts; You  wove me in my mother's womb.  I will give thanks to You, for  I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.   Trouble in mind, I'm blue But I won't be blue always 'Cause I know the sun's gonna shine in my back door someday (composed by Richard M. Jones and first recorded in 1924) … [Read more...] about Trouble in Mind: Attending to the Interplay of Mind and Body in Treating Depression

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: biological psychiatry, brain, chemistry, depression, healthcare, hospital, neuroscience, psychology, science

Book Review: Where the Conflict Really Lies

February 11, 2014 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Most people think there is a basic antagonism between faith and science that has to be overcome if one is to be both a theist and a scientific practitioner. Alvin Plantinga [1] says,  au contraire. It is in fact the naturalist who has the real problem. In Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, Plantinga carefully works this out over 352 pages. He begins with the areas often thought to be in contradiction, in particular the questions of evolution and miracles, and demonstrates that in … [Read more...] about Book Review: Where the Conflict Really Lies

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: alvin plantinga, biblical criticism, evolution, Miracles, naturalism, psychology, science and religion, theism, Where the Conflict Really Lies

Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?

September 13, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 12 Comments

In Chapter 18 of Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience (InterVarsity Press, 2013), Malcolm Jeeves[1] discusses the question “Can Science ‘Explain Away' Religion?” with his fictional psychology student "mentee". Have you wrestled with this question? How have you addressed it? Do you concur with what Jeeves offers? Can Science “Explain Away” Religion? Malcolm, Your emails have pointed out that the same evidence is often interpreted in very different ways. For example, … [Read more...] about Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Mentoring Tagged With: biological reductionism, brain, Colin Blakemore, faith, Francis Crick, God, illusion, intervarsity press, Malcolm Jeeves, Mentoring, mind, Minds Brains Souls and Gods, neuroscience, psychology, religious beliefs, science and religion, Sigmund Freud, warfare metaphor

Time to discuss faith, psychology and neuroscience?

September 6, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Preface Robert Boyle, illustrious scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, described how, while in Geneva on a continental holiday, he underwent a conversion from nominal, unthinking Christianity to committed Christianity. As a result of his experiences, he stressed the need for Christians to have what he called an "examined faith." [1] John Stott, discussing Paul's letter to the Christians in Philippi, drew attention to the importance for all Christians to heed the apostle's exhortation to "contend for the faith … [Read more...] about Time to discuss faith, psychology and neuroscience?

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Mentoring Tagged With: brain, christianity, evangelicals, faith, God, gods, Heart, intervarsity press, john stott, Malcolm Jeeves, mark noll, Mentoring, mind, Minds Brains Souls and Gods, neuroscience, neurotheology, psychology, Robert Boyle, soul

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