Author: Helen Billam

RESEARCH Surrender Is an Act of Trust: Prayer and the MRI

This is a guest post by Josh Brahinsky, an anthropologist and neuroscientist working out of Stanford’s Department of Religious Studies and Psychiatry and McGill’s Transcultural Psychiatry. He studies prayer, meditation and the ways that connection...

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CHURCH ACTION Faith, Health, and How God Works Through Science

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash On Monday 28 September, ECLAS co-hosted a webinar with Keep the Faith magazine, Britain’s leading publication for Black and multi-ethnic Christians. The event was the culmination of our year-long...

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Events A fruitful partnership between ECLAS and the Anglican Communion

Adapted from a report given by Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy to the Anglican Consultative Council in Belfast, Friday 3 July 2026   In April 2025, a new global partnership between Equipping Christian Leadership in an...

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Artificial Intelligence Reading ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Reflections from a Catholic scientist

This is a guest post by Dr Miro Cafolla.  The encyclical published in May by Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, stands firmly within the tradition of Catholic social teaching. It continues themes developed by Pope...

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CHURCH ACTION ECLAS FUNDING TO SUPPORT SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN CHURCHES AND COLLEGES

We are delighted to announce our awardees for Scientists in Congregations and Science for Seminaries, 2026-27! The awards support churches and theological education institutions to engage with science and scientists as a way of exploring...

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Artificial Intelligence AI is not your friend

Image credit: Kilworth Simmonds from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The idea that you could form a meaningful relationship with an AI tool would have seemed fanciful a few years ago, before...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS NEW BOOK ‘SCIENCE, RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE’

Researchers from ECLAS have published a new book out today, Friday 16 January. Science, Religion and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion and Consequences looks at the relationship between science and religion over time, covering the...

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Uncategorized In Memoriam: Richard Sudworth

We are deeply saddened by the death of Richard Sudworth, a valued colleague and friend of ECLAS, who led the Church of England’s national Faith and Public Life Team. As Director of Faith and Public...

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