April – between memory and hope
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...
Homo sapiens: perched between giga, nano, and God
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...
Writing humanity’s next chapter: Religion and science in the present moment
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...
Sophie’s Choice and the presence of God
The pandemic may seem far removed from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but they are interrelated in the Pieta image that describes our life today.
