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The Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science, and Technology is dedicated to expanding awareness and promoting conversation about the implications of science and technology for Christian faith and life.
Since 1991, the Alliance has been an independent Lutheran organization recognized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The membership includes scientists, science teachers, rostered leaders (clergy and lay), and other interested lay people.
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Latest Articles from Covalence, the Online Magazine of the Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology
The fall in evolutionary history
Certainly nothing offends us more rudely than this doctrine (of original sin); and yet, without this mystery, the most incomprehensible of all, we are incomprehensible to ourselves.- Blaise Pascal We live in remarkable times. Mysteries that baffled almost every...
Study finds pastors frustrated by COVID-driven digitization
Texas A&M University released a new report on how congregations relied on technology to handle worship services and keep the doors open virtually. What Texas A&M Professor Heidi Campbell and her team found was that pastors seemed frustrated and exhausted when...
Religious groups and non-profits partner to provide community-minded COVID help
The Center for the Study of Religion and the City in Baltimore recently teamed up with the Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm team to build an outdoor kitchen. The effort is just one example of how an ongoing Henry Luce Foundation program is supporting religious...
Origin stories and a global pandemic still dominate faith and science discourse
In the beginning, there was a perception of conflict. Simply it stood between what we saw with our own eyes and the sense there was something more, an ultimate, a transcendent beneath what humans could touch, taste, see, or readily explain. Perhaps that is why...
New book on sustainability eyes principles of ‘grounded faith’
Recently retired Lutheran campus pastor Ron Rude has launched a book exploring the connections between the Christian faith and natural sciences, Amending the Christian Story: The Natural Sciences as a Window into Grounded Faith and Sustainable Living. The book was...
Why have the ETI not arrived?
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the August 2021 edition of the PASTCF newsletter SciTech and is used here with permission. A Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith (PASTCF) member asked me recently about...
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