by Philip Hefner | May 8, 2022 | Features
[Editor’s Note: This is the final chapter of a forthcoming book – Created to be Creators: Being Human in a Scientific & Technological Age by Philip Hefner] A new challenge for the co-creator Our technology began as tool making even when it turned to...
by Jim Miller | Mar 16, 2022 | Features
This is the second of a four-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 and...
by Jim Miller | Feb 16, 2022 | Features
[Note: When writing dates in this and other blogs I will be using the designators BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era) for what in the past have been BC (Before Christ) and AD (Year of our Lord). This practice has become standard in academic and scientific...
by Jay Johnson | Jan 8, 2022 | Features
Certainly nothing offends us more rudely than this doctrine (of original sin); and yet, without this mystery, the most incomprehensible of all, we are incomprehensible to ourselves.- Blaise Pascal We live in remarkable times. Mysteries that baffled almost every...
by Arnold Rots | Nov 20, 2021 | Features
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the August 2021 edition of the PASTCF newsletter SciTech and is used here with permission. A Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith (PASTCF) member asked me recently about...
by Susan Barreto | Oct 13, 2021 | Features
This fall students entering seminary brought more than their mask and laptop. Some have been pondering science anew as they prepare to lead congregations that may have scientists in the pews. Over one dozen U.S. and UK seminaries this past spring were awarded grants...