by George L. Murphy | Oct 17, 2019 | Features
(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 year before the formation of the...
by George L. Murphy | Jul 12, 2019 | Features
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 as: Where did you get that? Who was Leonhard Euler? Should Christians be honoring dead saints? And...
by George L. Murphy | Jun 7, 2019 | Commentary
[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 on Faith, Science and Technology...
by George L. Murphy | Apr 10, 2019 | Features
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 conditions and their seasonal...
by George L. Murphy | Dec 6, 2018 | Features
“Teaching Faith and Science” was one of the areas for which papers were invited for the annual meeting of American Scientific Affiliation this past summer. I gave one of the papers, as well as being a reviewer of others that were submitted. This is an important topic...