Humility, empathy and discovery in science and in ministry
Michael Spezio is one of those rare individuals who has fit more than one passion into his daily work. Spezio is associate professor of psychology, neuroscience and data science at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. He is also ordained as a Minister of Word and...
The Templeton Prize: Raising the faith and science profile
Dr. Jane Goodall wrote in one of her more recent books, “And always I have this feeling — which may not be true at all — that I am being used as a messenger.” She broadened that role of messenger beyond her talks and hundreds of meetings each year with a...
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.
