Content on Theology
What Is a Human? Creation, Science and Humanity
We humans have to verbalize science to communicate, and we have to use words that have intellectual and emotional resonances.
A Conversation on Cosmology
If we can see how far light has traveled, might we be able to go back to where it all began?
Reports of a Baleful Internet Are Greatly Exaggerated
Our digital technologies can in fact be cognitive aids.
The Stuff That Makes Us
Love is an orientation towards others, knowing that when two people give 100% of themselves to each other, there is more than enough for everyone.
The Process of Knowing: A Conversation With Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson
How does process theology — especially in the Jewish world — help us understand the relationship between religion and the scientific method?
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?
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.