After Trinity Sunday comes…
I’m writing this on April 22 which, as everyone — or at least a lot of people — knows as Earth Day. It occurred to me that probably many members of the ELCA don’t know that their church has also designated the Second Sunday after Pentecost, the one following...
Science, pseudoscience, and tendentious science
Before there was hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, before there was climate change denial or Intelligent Design, there was Immanuel Velikovsky. I first encountered “pseudoscience” in the 1950s when my brother got Martin Gardner’s Fad’s and...
Astrotheology: Space neighbors in God’s kingdom?
The contrast between the immensity of God’s cosmic creation and our minute human size is dramatic. We revisit this topic in light of the recent landing of the Mars Rover Perseverance.
Scholars eager to explore the intersection of religion, science and public health
The survey data is still being collected, but from communion practices in South Korea to attitudes around vaccination in the heart of Ohio Amish Country, the intersection of faith and science in this time of COVID is being studied in a series of research efforts...
