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Faith Across The Multiverse Book Club Event

September 18, 2018 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

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What inspired you to write Faith across the Multiverse? “Inspiration came from many directions, including the story I tell in the book about making a spontaneous connection between math and theology during a group Bible study. But I think the biggest one was spending time chatting with comic book fans and seeing how many of them took for granted that being intelligent or scientific automatically ruled out belief in God. . . .”

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Filed Under: Author, Books, Christian Thought and Practice, Science Tagged With: comics, Faith across the Multiverse, faith and science, interviews, science, science fiction, storytelling

Science Corner: Sympathy for the Bedeviled

May 9, 2018 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Photo of Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther

If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: Avengers: Infinity War, comics, film, movies, science, science corner, storytelling, superheroes

Science in Review: Thor, Thanos and Theology

May 2, 2018 by Andy Walsh 2 Comments

Photo of Thor from Avengers: Infinity War

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.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: Avengers: Infinity War, comics, film, movies, science, science in review, storytelling, superheroes

Story, Lent and The Life of Pi

March 6, 2013 by John Hundley No Comments

Last week I wrote about The Oscars and Lent. I wrote that these two phenomena share more in common than is usually suggested.  Today I want to move in for a closer look–at the stories themselves. If this annual cultural ritual in honor of story (The Oscars) is so telling of our culture’s condition, and if […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: family history, gospel, lectionary, lent, Life of Pi, Oscars, Relgious Studies, story, storytelling

A Christian Reflection on The Oscars and Lent

February 28, 2013 by John Hundley 2 Comments

On Sunday night more than 1,000,000,000 people participated in the cultural festival that is the 85th Oscar Awards Ceremony.  I can’t even begin to imagine the impact that Hollywood has on our culture’s development, and if there’s an opportune time to catch a glimpse of the dialectical conversation between the influence of the big screen […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Christopher Waltz, dialectical conversation, festival, Hollywood, James Bond, lectionary, lent, Life of Pi, Oscars, religious studies, rite of passage, ritual, story, storytelling

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