COVID-19 and Evil: A Test? A Plan? A Transgression?
How can we transform our meditations on the evil of the pandemic, from speculation about causes and goals, into a call to action?
Theology
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Corona and Keter, Disease and Divinity
Rather than seeing God as decreeing disease, we’re better off recognizing how human beings affect the cosmos and, in turn, the divine.
Creation Isn’t Finished – It’s Imperfect
Rather than considering the world’s imperfections the finished result of a botched creation, we should think of them as how it feels to live during an ongoing process.
Hindu Spirituality, Mathematical Thinking
Does religious thought always have to be the opposite of logical, scientific thought?
Seeing God in the Patterns — and Where the Patterns Break
As part of Sinai and Synapses’ series “More Light, Less Heat,” Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver and Bill Richards discuss what inspires them to create and educate.
How Darwin Influenced Early Reform Judaism
It’s not an unusual idea to think that Reform Jews are thinking in evolutionary terms. What’s different is that it is Darwin that they’re engaging with.
In The Image of God
Written into very rules that give us DNA is the capability to become aware of God’s existence.
God as a “Scientific Object”
We need to keep rethinking what we believe about God based on new ideas and new experiences.
A Nobel Laureate’s Thoughts on Judaism and Science
Science and Jewish religious tradition share the conviction that the world and the actions of human beings matter.
Bringing Rabbis and Scientists Together
How can we better integrate science and Jewish life, Jewish identity and Jewish values?
