Content by 2017-2019 Sinai and Synapses Fellows (Page 5)
Embracing Ignorance: How Modern Science Helps Us Rediscover Our Ancient Faith
When you use God to explain all the things that you can’t currently understand, then you are setting God up to be gone one day, when we do understand those things.
Challenging Faith, Challenging Science
Arvin Gouw and Ted Peters discuss how they have maintained their faith despite taking on careers that center around inquiry and skepticism.
Finding Conflict and Camaraderie With “the Other”
Kendra Moore and Kate Stockly discuss how they ventured outside their comfort zones, and what it taught them.
Protecting God’s Garden
We are what happens when the dirt gets a voice, when the earth gets a conscience, when the world has arms and legs and a thinking, rational mind that can relate to the Creator.
How Scientific Questioning Impacts Faith
Answering difficult questions about the world and comforting people in a time of need requires the best wisdom from both religion and science.
The Quest for Perfect Vision
The quest for perfect vision—or any other repair or improvement in our physical bodies—often obscures bigger-picture things, like the moral and ethical implications of such research.
Empowering People of Faith to Care for the Environment
As part of Sinai and Synapses’ series “More Light, Less Heat,” Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell and Reverend Brian Sauder discuss how their faith led them to their environmental work.
Three Reasons White Evangelicals Hate Obamacare
White evangelicals tend to support pushing back certain provisions of the ACA, or eliminating it altogether, for at least three reasons particular to their religious group.
Faith in the Water
While we’re a lot like Peter – terrified, eager, and unsure – we can put our faith into action.
The Case Against Lectures
Teaching STEM doesn’t have to be all about lectures.
The Rainbow Connection
There’s a reason why this story has become a bit of a flash point between the religious fundamentalists and the atheist fundamentalists in the world.
How Can Places of Worship Better Serve Young Adults?
Do young adults “outgrow” religion? The Sinai and Synapses Fellows’ personal stories add nuance to this claim.