Artificial intelligence: Our new golden calf?
As AI continues to serve as the center point of conversation, shouldn’t we look to AI to understand more about ourselves, especially as the study of humans becomes more focused?
The world’s longest running interfaith dialogue embraces science
It is a conversation that is perhaps 130 years in the making and could likely only happen in a place like Chicago, just as it did for the first time during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Parliament of World Religions (PoWR) this summer (Aug. 14-18) will...
Complexity, interactions and clarity: A look back at Carol Rausch Albright’s faith/science legacy
One early evening we found ourselves sitting in La Petite Folie, the well-known Hyde Park French restaurant that Carol suggested we meet for dinner. Besides myself, it was fellow CASIRAS executive committee members Gayle Woloschak, Mladen Turk and Grace Wolf-Chase. It...
Where are they now, what are they doing?
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...
Mystery, awe, and wonder on a Sunday
[Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a sermon given on Feb. 12, 2023, which was designated “Mystery, Awe and Wonder” Sunday as promoted by the Clergy Letter Project. The livestream of the full service may be viewed at the bottom of this article]. Diatoms are...
Might religion and science, working together, transform the world? It’s time to find out
At a time when the anti-science movement is growing and when religion is being defined by its most extreme adherents, there is some very good news that might make a difference in how we approach some of our largest problems, problems that are ecological, economic, and...
