by George L. Murphy | Nov 7, 2019 | Features
Photo by Bobby Johnson via Unsplash Stephen Hawking wrote that if we can answer the question of why we and the universe exist, “it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God.”1 Others at the frontiers of physics have used...
by George L. Murphy | Oct 17, 2019 | Features
Photo by Aaron Burden via Unsplash (Editor’s note: A version of this article, “Bearing Witness with the Lutheran Alliance on Faith, Science and Technology,” originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of Lutheran Forum) Beginning to address the challenge In 1987, the...
by George L. Murphy | Jul 12, 2019 | Features
Monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Turun, Poland. Photo by Jason Riedy, [CC BY-NC 2.0] via Flickr This spring (May 24) the church once again honored the memories of Nicolaus Copernicus and Leonhard Euler. That may provoke readers to wonder several things, such...
by George L. Murphy | Jun 7, 2019 | Commentary
Photo by Marija Zaric on Unsplash [Editor’s note: This month we are re-running one of our most popular commentary pieces from our Theological Editor George Murphy. This essay originally ran in October 2015.] Several years ago we had a display for the Lutheran Alliance...
by George L. Murphy | Apr 10, 2019 | Features
Credit: Matt Artz via Unsplash Scripture doesn’t address the issue of climate change. As with other issues raised by modern science and technology, that wasn’t a concern of biblical writers two to three thousand years ago. The Bible does speak about weather...
