by Philip Hefner | May 13, 2023 | Commentary
Reflections on life after death My wife, Neva, passed away during Christmas week. Writing at this time, this blog installment can be considered part of my grieving, but it deals with difficult intellectual and theological issues. In the days after her death, my mind...
by Philip Hefner | May 8, 2022 | Features
[Editor’s Note: This is the final chapter of a forthcoming book – Created to be Creators: Being Human in a Scientific & Technological Age by Philip Hefner] A new challenge for the co-creator Our technology began as tool making even when it turned to...
by Philip Hefner | May 8, 2022 | Commentary
April brings warming days and signs of Spring’s fertility. We associate April with hopefulness — cold wintry days are only a memory. But what is happening in the world around us can sometimes dash our joy and hopes. When the poet T. S. Eliot, was writing in the early...
by Philip Hefner | Jul 17, 2021 | Commentary
What I have to say is provoked by an image, informed by science, and interpreted theologically and philosophically. Let’s begin with the image — which is where I began. The basic image is that of a human being, existing — I like the image of perching, like...
by Philip Hefner | Feb 11, 2021 | Commentary
Editor’s note: These remarks were originally delivered in August 2020 as part of a Zoom lecture series sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in Religion and Science (CASIRAS). In these very days, our society has been ripped open by a public health disaster to...