Challenging questions are vital to future faith/science dialogue
Christians are people of a shared word, and I would guess if you asked a person randomly on the street what that word is they may say “the Bible,” or maybe “Church.” For some today another word may come to mind, and that is “‘No.”...
Look up for a new view, new perspective
Earlier this summer, the world welcomed the initial images from the James Webb Telescope, and just as awestruck as the rest of us was Vatican Astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno. “The science behind this telescope is our attempt to use our God-given intelligence...
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...
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.
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...
