Category: SCIENCE AND RELIGION

CHURCH ACTION Send us your applications for Scientists in Congregations 

We are now accepting applications for Scientists in Congregations projects for 2024-25.  We have eight grants available of up to £10,000 each for churches and church partnerships in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We...

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION Remembering Tom McLeish: Science, Religion and Big Questions

  On 27th February 2023, ECLAS lost friend and co-founder Prof Tom McLeish. He remains greatly missed. In the words of ECLAS Project Director, the Revd Prof David Wilkinson, A year on and we continue...

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION The Vastness of Space

Image: European Space Agency ESO/M. Kornmesser This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 26th February 2024. Good morning. Space is big, not least in the...

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CHURCH ACTION BAPTIST UNION ENVIRONMENT NETWORK LAUNCHES ‘GOD SAW THAT IT WAS...

“God Saw That It Was Good” is a collaboration between BUEN – the Baptist Union Environment Network – and The Fuelcast. They have been made possible by a grant from ECLAS’ Scientists in Congregations programme....

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION Mental health and the Imago Dei

Dr Janet Warren is a theologian and physician who practices psychotherapy, and has guest lectured at London School of Theology as part of the Science for Seminaries programme My psychotherapy patients often exemplify human complexity...

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Church calendar Earthrise, Science and Christmas

(Earthrise image by NASA) This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day on 23rd December 2023. Good morning. On Christmas Eve 55 years ago, one of...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS REVD PROF DAVID WILKINSON INSTALLED AS ECUMENICAL CANON OF DURHAM...

We are pleased to announce that our director, Revd Prof. David Wilkinson was installed as an ecumenical canon of Durham Cathedral on January 14th. Prof. Wilkinson was welcomed into the cathedral community alongside several other...

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship: Space Week

Photo by NASA The Revd Prof David Wilkinson gave a sermon at the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, as part of BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship service during World Space Week,...

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