by Robert Shedinger | Mar 15, 2020 | Features
It is common in mainline Christian circles these days to view religious faith and biological evolution as entirely compatible. Many believe that rejection of evolutionary theory is restricted to fundamentalist Christians who read the Bible literally and view modern...
by Ted Peters | Feb 10, 2020 | Features
Millennial young people, whom we do not see in our church pews on Sundays, frequently complain that the Christian religion is anti-science right along with being anti-everything else they take for granted. When it comes to the people who do sit comfortably in our...
by Ted Peters | Dec 11, 2019 | Features
Watching a seated cat ride across the living room carpet on top of a Roomba is cute because the cat is cute; not because the vacuum cleaner is intelligent. Much of what we call artificial intelligence (AI) or machine intelligence is so common that it prompts at best...
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 Susan Barreto | Sep 9, 2019 | Features
Photo by Sylwia Pietruszka via Unsplash [Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on technology and the church. In this article we look at how social media is rewriting the rules of communication and community online. Next month we will dive into the...
