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God speaking Job’s language
I had this thought when I was reading Daniel Harrel‘s book ‘Nature’s Witness: How evolution can inspire faith.’ (I’m only about half way through so I’m not going to review it here, but I feel I should...
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Bethlehem star
I watched the film The Nativity Story a few weeks ago. I picked it up at a well-known supermarket for just £3 so I was a bit dubious about what it would be like, but I was pleasantly surprised. The...
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Science and miracles
I’m a scientist who believes that miracles can happen. I don’t think I’m all that unusual. I could name a lot of other scientists who believe the same thing, and from time to time they make themselves...
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God’s Providence in Nature
I was at the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (the fellowship of Christians in Science in the USA) a couple of weeks ago. One of the talks that I heard was by Gregory Bennett, a...
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Follow the Star
Time for a Christmas post! The BBC series The Nativity featured three scholars from the East who pieced together history, prophecy, politics and astrology to predict a momentous event in Judaea. They...
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Science and the investigation of the New Testament documents
5th century papyrus, part of Matthew chpt 5 And now for something a bit different… The reliability of the Bible is an important question, and the many scientists who are Christians have weighed the...
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The Future of Life on Earth
Gilderm, http://www.sxc.hu The Christian church is not always the first place environmentalists run to when faced with a potentially global catastrophe. Nevertheless, Christian theology provides a...
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The Creativity of God
Luis Brito, http://www.sxc.hu My theologically trained colleagues tell me that the Hebrew Scriptures are very concrete in their use of language. It’s not surprising, then, that a rather abstract...
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The Concept of Personhood
Aleksandra P, http://www.sxc.hu Last week at the Faraday Institute Daniel Weiss, Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Cambridge University Divinity Faculty, spoke on the concept of the person...
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Big Bang, Big God
The development of the Big Bang theory is an example of how faith responses can contribute to the scientific discussion in a positive way. Rodney Holder, an Anglican priest and former cosmologist, has...
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Why I am a Christian
Chris Wittwer, http://www.sxc.hu/ When describing her own Christian faith, Rosalind Picard, a Professor at the MIT Media Lab, said that ‘I know some people will assume I have lost my marbles…I also...
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The Mystery of the Last Supper
Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci Sir Colin Humphreys is Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge University, and his most heavily quoted paper – one in the prestigious scientific journal Nature –...
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Reimagining Job
Orion Nebula, NASA, ESA, M. Robberto & Hubble Orion Treasury Project Team I recently got together with some scientists and theologians to study part of Job. The final few chapters (38-42) of this...
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Considering Beauty
Lime tree, microscopic view. K Szkurlatowski, 12frames.eu I have often written about beauty here, and Francesca Day mentioned it last week, but without defining the word itself. William Edgar is a...
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God’s Providence in Nature
I was at the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (the fellowship of Christians in Science in the USA) a couple of weeks ago. One of the talks that I heard was by Gregory Bennett, a...
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Beauty, awe and vulnerability: The sea and Scripture
© Karin Lindstrom, freeimages.com My father loves sailing and anything to do with the sea, so I grew up hearing him joke from time to time, ‘I’m a bit worried about going to heaven, because the Bible...
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Star Gazing
© Ben Earwicker, http://www.garrisonphoto.org What kind of star did the Magi think they were following? Coming from east of the Holy Land, they may well have been from Babylon or Persia, both of which...
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Jellyfish: Beauty, Ecology, Wonder and the Bible
© David Patras, Creative Commons license 3.0 How can faith and ecology work together? Dr Robert (Bob) Sluka, a marine biologist who works for the Christian conservation organisation A Rocha, has given...
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The Trees Clap their Hands: What does it mean to say that creation praises...
© Ruth Bancewicz Are the Bible passages about trees and rivers that clap their hands, and mountains that burst into song simply metaphors about how creation inspires people to praise God, or does the...
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On Seurat, Science, and Faith: The Value of Theology in the Lab
Source: webexhibits.org How does theology contribute to science? This is a question that developmental biologist Jeff Hardin has answered many times. I met Jeff several years ago when I first...
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