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Announcing the 2025 Scientists in Congregations awardees

Mars exploration, sustainability, and healthcare are among the science-faith topics churches will address in 2025, supported by the Scientists in Congregations awards. We have awarded funding totalling over £70,000 to nine organisations in England and the

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ECLAS co-director Malcolm Brown awarded OBE

ECLAS co-director Revd Dr Malcolm Brown has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours this week. The honour is in recognition of his work as the Church of England’s Director of Mission and Public

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NEW GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP TO SUPPORT SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT ACROSS THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

ECLAS has partnered with the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) to support and enrich the work of the Anglican Communion Science Commission (ACSC). Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (CCCW), will

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How dark were the ‘dark ages’, really?

If your go-to headache remedy is to crush the stone of a peach and smear it with rose oil on your forehead, or to use a shampoo containing pieces of lizard, you may not be following

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Evolution and the Culture Wars

This is a transcript of a Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 21 July 2025.   As a US President files a lawsuit for 10 billion dollars, on this day one hundred

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How a Coptic Orthodox Priest Sees Science and Faith

Before joining the priesthood, Fr. Morkos Fakhry Gamil was a medical software engineer and surgeon in London. Now a Coptic Orthodox priest, he has served as the parish priest of St. Mary and Pope Kyrillos VI

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Dealing with Dead Bodies: Environmental and Pastoral Care

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Public Theology Retreat May 6
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Extinction and Biodiversity: Evolution, Action and Hope

University of Manchester

SENIOR LEADERS June 11
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Food, Climate, and Public Theology: Focus on East Africa

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SENIOR LEADERS November 21

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ABOUT ECLAS

For the last decade, ECLAS has been working to equip senior Christian leaders with the tools, context and skills they need to engage confidently with science in their ministry and their personal faith.

ECLAS was born from the conviction that science is a gift from God, but that too often Christian leaders lack the confidence and tools to engage with scientific questions. Working with partners around the world, we want to create opportunities for church leaders to connect with science and scientists, to develop well-informed, theologically grounded, practical knowledge about the world and our place in it.

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Original Research

Research forms the basis of ECLAS’ work to drive culture change within the Church. Our research informs our policy work, resource development, and senior leaders’ conferences.

As a global network of research hubs, our driving question is on how context -- covering geographic, cultural, theological, denominational, national, and political settings -- offer challenges and opportunities for Church leaders' engagement with science.

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Extinction and Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt

Join us on a virtual scavenger hunt round Manchester Museum, as our researchers discuss the science and theology behind extinction and biodiversity. Use these discussion questions to explore your responses to the topic, individually or as

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Extinction and Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt

Join us on a virtual scavenger hunt round Manchester Museum, as our researchers discuss the science and theology behind extinction and biodiversity.

Use these discussion questions to explore your responses to the topic, individually or as a group.

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Developing Positive Science-Faith Engagement Across the Anglican Communion

For the Lambeth Conference 2022, we have created a guide for clergy and senior leaders to developing positive science-faith engagement. Based on interviews with scientists and senior leaders, our own research, and case studies from Scientists

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Ruth Valerio: Why Climate Change Matters

Climate change is a global problem, but one which affects us unequally. For example, those who live in the industrialised global north have contributed disproportionately to the problem, whereas the residents of the global south are

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Ruth Valerio: Why Climate Change Matters

Climate change is a global problem, but one which affects us unequally. For example, those who live in the industrialised global north have contributed disproportionately to the problem, whereas the residents of the global south are far more likely to suffer the harmful consequences of climate change. Therefore, for Christians, concerned with issues of inequality and social justice, climate change has to be high on our agenda.

In this talk Dr Ruth Valerio takes the fact of climate change as a given. The scientific evidence for rising global temperatures as a result of human activities is now overwhelming. She shows that with this now near-universal acceptance of the facts how the language of climate change has shifted from global warming to climate change and more recently embraces the term ‘climate emergency’.

This is a talk from Science and Faith in the Second City, a Scientists in Congregations-funded project from ChaplaincyPlus.