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Nov 18, 2019

Science and Religion: Playing in the Sandbox

Ian Binns, PhD, Kat Robison, Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver, Rev. Gawain de Leeuw, Dr. Adam Pryor

How does play help us understand the rules of the game for both science and religion? How can they help us better understand and create more joy in the work that we do?

Aug 15, 2019

For Both Religion and Science, It’s Good To Not Know

Rev. Dr. Ruth Shaver, Rev. Zachary Jackson

We’re not even aware of how often it is that we use the scientific process to make decisions in our lives – even in our faith lives.

Jul 3, 2019

I Am Not Indiana Jones, or Why I Am Writing a Book (It’s Not For the Money)

Roy E. Plotnick, PhD

Paleontological research still often begins with grueling and careful field work, but there are many paleontologists who have never used a pickaxe and shovel in their research.

Apr 25, 2019

How Can Educational Research Inform Science Communication?

Megan Powell Cuzzolino, EdD

Scientists and science communicators often believe that hearts and minds could be changed about complex scientific issues if only the public had access to more, and better, information. Yet evidence indicates that this is not the case.

Oct 11, 2018

Can a Visual Generation Accept a Text-Based Religion?

Rabbi Melanie Aron

Can an alternative to textual study offer us deeper levels of meaning?

Sep 6, 2018

Can We Have God and Science?

Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith

Not only has science advanced by leaps and bounds since we were in college in the 70’s, but some of the things we learned as scientific “fact” are no longer “facts” at all.

Aug 16, 2018

Embracing Ignorance: How Modern Science Helps Us Rediscover Our Ancient Faith

Rev. Zachary Jackson

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.

Apr 19, 2018