Covalence Magazine
On finding lost books – Or, scientists and sin
Lost and found When we returned last year to our winter retreat in Arizona after absence due to COVID-19 and other matters, I got into books I’d put in storage there. One I’d forgotten was a collection of Robert Oppenheimer’s post-war essays titled The Open...
Faith and science scholar to head Grefenstette Center at Duquesne
John Slattery has been named director of Duquesne University’s Carl G. Grefenstette Center of Ethics in Science, Technology and Law, where he had been a directing fellow since early 2021. An ethicist, theologian and science historian by training, he has explored the...
Do Christians want to live forever? New study has the answer
A new survey conducted by UK think tank Theos and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion found that roughly 60% of people reject the idea of "scientific immortality," while 19% are in favor. Perhaps more interestingly, the survey of 5,000 UK adults found that...
Ecklund named director of Boniuk Institute
Elaine Howard Ecklund, who is well known for her research on perceptions of religion and science, was named director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University. The move follows more than a decade at the Religion and Public Life Program at...
Covalence for June 2022: Looking back and looking ahead
The work of religion and science is as much about looking back at previous discoveries as it is about looking ahead toward potential revelations to come. I suppose this month’s edition illustrates that well with Jim Miller’s next installment in his “Of artichokes and...
Of artichokes and onions: Trouble at the foundations (Part 1 – History)
This is the third of a now five-part series of blogs offering my historical and philosophical story of the interaction of science and religion in Western culture and, eventually, my sense of the implications of that interaction for the future of the Christian faith...
A clearer view of elusive Higgs particle could reopen origins dialogue
The theoretical and elusive Higgs Boson particle is one step closer to being discovered and is still being referred to as the “God” particle as a way to communicate its role as a building block of the universe although that was not the original intention of physicists.
Nobel Prize winner and theoretical physicist wins faith/science accolade
Dr. Frank Wilczek was named the winner of the 2022 Templeton Prize for his work as a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author in studying and explaining how the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the universe. The $1.3 million...
