Covalence for June 2022

The greatest challenge: The Created Co-Creator creates a Co-Creator
[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...

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...

New exhibit/book offers an illustrated history of religion and science in the U.S.
A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is set to offer a unique history of religion and science via historical objects that each tell their own story of where we have been and how cultural views have shifted. The exhibit, Discovery and...

Digital media plays a key role in health communication
Digital media can promote safer behavior in faith communities, according to the findings of research recently published in the journal New Media & Society. Professor Yossi David of the Department of Communication of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz set out to...

Deane-Drummond awarded for theology and science work
Durham University visiting professor of Theology and Science Celia Deane-Drummond has received the Civitas Dei Medal at the University of Oxford this month. The honor is awarded by Villanova University to Catholics who through their work have made “exemplary...

Covalence for March: The old and new story of faith and science
This month we are exploring again with Jim Miller some of the key aspects of historical faith and science interactions as part of his ongoing series of articles providing a wealth of ancient wisdom in a new way. Indeed, much more can be done in bringing these ideas to...