"Sinai and Synapses Fellowship" Tagged Content (Page 8)
Science Doesn’t Compromise Religion — and Religion Doesn’t Compromise Science
Ian Binns, Ph.D. and Dr. Mark Bloom discuss how they came to hold a belief about science and religion being in dialogue rather than in opposition.
My Big Fat Vegetarian Wedding
We choose not to eat meat, but would our wedding guests feel uncomfortable with us pushing this choice on them?
Why Be Jewish? Beauty, Questions, and Connections
In a day and age of functionality and productivity, where is the need for beauty or connection? And more importantly, how does Judaism fill that need?
Spirits in the Material World
If humans have learned over eons that intercessory prayer doesn’t “work”, why do we keep doing it?
What Does It Mean for Religion If There Is Life on other Planets?
How would our religious perspective change if we discovered life on other planets?
Seeing God In The Solar Eclipse
I hold these things together: God indeed made the Sun and the Moon, and it pleases God to let us discover how it was done through the work of science.
How Do We Know What We Know?
Why are some sources of authority more alluring than others?
Can Americans Learn to Grieve?
How can the workplace and our other social institutions help dispel the myth that everyone is just in it for themselves?
Does Science Need Its Own Rituals?
Does religion offer something special that science doesn’t?
Seeing Religion in Science, and Science in Religion
Religion and science needn’t live in their own echo chambers. Rather, they can coexist in a meaningful way, both informing the other.
Science is Evil! Religion Is Stupid!: A Discussion on Blue Ocean Faith
Religious people feel threatened by secular, scientific-worldview people, and secular people, conversely, feel threatened by religious thought. How do we find common ground?
Infant Weeping and Infant Abandonment
We are “cooperative breeders,” since we do not raise our children by ourselves, but rely heavily on a range of others to help us.