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What We Can Learn from Scientists’ Awe Experiences
Science progresses only through scientists, who are indeed human beings – and perhaps one key to unlocking their excitement is a sense of awe.
Celebrating Women Scientists
“Beyond Curie” now features 45 portraits, each accompanied by the artist’s own view of the social and scientific significance of her subject’s work.
The Animal at Unease With Itself
How are Genesis 2 and 3 are crafted to deal with the stress of human awareness of its own creatureliness and mortality?
Why America Is Ripe for Election Conspiracy Theorizing
The psychological need for understanding the world is joined by two other needs that underlie conspiracism—feeling safe, and belonging to social groups that affirm or encourage self-respect.
The Theology of Wearing a Mask
When your mask limits your ability to communicate clearly, perhaps you could let that moment remind you of the countless souls whose voices are never heard.
100 Years of Science Fiction in the Islamicate World
Science fiction provides us insight into how Muslim societies perceive themselves – and they see possibilities for the future.
Science and Religion: Playing in the Sandbox
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?
Is Morality About Cooperation?
Morality-as-cooperation is pushing researchers in moral psychology to think more rigorously about the evolutionary background and specific processes that might give rise to moral sentiments.
For Both Religion and Science, It’s Good To Not Know
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.
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.
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.