Content on God's Creation and Our Creation
As humans have gained increasing control over their environment, what are our new moral and religious responsibilities? How can we bring awareness of our changing role in the world to our environment? How does our creative nature mirror God’s?
These are a few of the questions that this Sinai and Synapses Discussion Forum explores.
Origins and Mystery: Reflections on Creation
Judaism helps the heart and spirit understand topics that can elude the human intellect – like the vastness of space and eternity.
Friendship with Earth: Not a Gift, but a Relationship
What if we treated Creation not merely as a sign or gift but as a manifestation of God’s love and invitation to relationship?
Genesis and the Formation of the Stars
How do both astrophysics and Genesis give us a glimpse into how everything began?
Animal Perceptions: Talking Animals in the Tanakh
What impact might the talking animals in the Bible have had on how we view and treat our nonhuman “others”?
Animal Perceptions: From Sentience to Spirituality
We are gradually discovering that many aspects of mind thought to be exclusive to humans actually appear in animals too. What does that mean for us?
Differentiating Differences
Our challenge is to avoid inventing differences that lead to the world’s disarray, while still embracing the inherent differences we all have.
Tree Roots in The Cosmos
We tend to think astrobiology as the search for alien life, but I consider it something quite different.
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.
Playing With God in Creation
The creativity that named us partners with God to protect creation has been essential in our efforts to reclaim and restore what our previous arrogance wrought.
Eating the Fruit of Wisdom and Knowledge
What would the earth, and the spirit of humanity, look like if the Fall had never happened?
Thinking Ecologically – 10,000 Years Down the Road
How might thinking in a “Godly time-frame” help us take more urgent action about issues affecting us right now?
How Do We Use Storytelling to Make Sense of Climate Change?
How might we help others see themselves as vulnerable climate change, but also empowered to do something about it?