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...
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 Susan Barreto | Jun 7, 2019 | Features
Photo collage by Sergio Barreto; photos by Matthew Feeney and Lance Anderson on Unsplah It may have been a chance encounter between neighbors that sparked the creation of the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church. Lutheran Church in America...
by Stephen Kolderup | May 8, 2019 | Features
For several years now the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has been engaging the religious public — seeking to learn more about how people of faith perceive scientific work and scientists themselves, developing models that explore common...
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...
by Ted Peters | Mar 7, 2019 | Features
Editor’s note: This is the second article in a two-part series on astrotheology. In the first installment we looked at the importance of this emerging area and how it is defined. Our brave eco-theologians and eco-ethicists strive valiantly to persuade the peoples of...
