Being a Christian has engendered in me a greater interest in intellectual matters I might not otherwise have taken seriously. History is no longer for me the torture it was as a schoolboy. And that is in part because I see the significance and relevance of history in my Christian faith. A deeper knowledge of the history and philosophy of science, beyond the logic of the disciplines themselves, I find fascinating and of enormous help in better understanding the relationships between the communities. – Ian Hutchinson, … [Read more...] about Snapshots of “Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?”
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Book Review: Questioning Your Doubts
Questioning Your Doubts: A Harvard PhD Explores Challenges to Faith, Christina M. H. Powell. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2014. Summary: This book comes out of the world of academic research and proposes that the process of questioning our doubts as well as our faith builds bridges of understanding deepening both our exercise of reason and confidence in our faith. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Questioning Your Doubts
Call for Science Career Questions
Are you an emerging scholar in the sciences looking for someone to answer your questions about graduate school, career choices, life/work balance, and more? Members of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), an association of Christians in science, would love to explore your questions on the ESN blog and then continue the conversation at ASA's new Nexus Forums. Email ESN with questions and we'll pass them on. To get a free Student Basic membership to ASA, click here. … [Read more...] about Call for Science Career Questions
Releasing the Helm: Letting Theory Critique My Faith (Scholar’s Compass)
We must listen with all our might, with all our will to discern, laying aside our very human desire to be right with a prayer that we may be faithful. - Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009 Reflection The air conditioner's white noise makes my meeting with my dissertation advisor dreamlike, as if the discussion we are having isn't real, as if my legs' adherence to the sticky metal folding chair is a discomfort that I would vaguely remember when I wake up. I'm … [Read more...] about Releasing the Helm: Letting Theory Critique My Faith (Scholar’s Compass)
Devotions: “In-spite-of” Wisdom
"For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious." (Acts 17:20-22) Wisdom from God comes in many forms. Sometimes it provides us amazing answers to challenges about our faith. Other times God provides opportunities to … [Read more...] about Devotions: “In-spite-of” Wisdom