Category: SCIENCE AND RELIGION

RESEARCH Science News Round Up: Apocalypse Now?

  Science news this month has been dominated by engagement with the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report was hard-hitting. Climate change is no longer only visible in particularly...

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION Sunday Mornings and Citizen Science

This article first appeared in the June 18th edition of the Methodist Recorder under the title ‘Encountering the Otter’. Sunday mornings over the last year have looked different for many of us, and required us...

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RESEARCH Science News Round-up: What does it mean to be human?

Welcome to our first science news round-up – a monthly briefing of some of the latest developments and discoveries, seen through the lens of Christian faith. It’s been an interesting month for palaeoanthropology. First, archaeologists...

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CHURCH ACTION Praying for Wisdom as ‘Created Co-creators’

This is the seventh and final post in our series on Science-Engaged Worship. Grace Wolf-Chase is a Senior Scientist and Senior Education & Communication Specialist with the Planetary Science Institute, and also serves as Vice...

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CHURCH ACTION Celebrating science all year round

By Helen Billam and Theodora Hawksley. This is is the sixth post in our series on Science-Engaged Worship. Science touches our lives daily and has a place in our regular church activity – whether that’s...

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CHURCH ACTION Announcing our funding for new Scientists in Congregations projects

We’re awarding funding totalling £400,000 to 23 churches in England and Wales to explore the relationship between science and faith through our church engagement programme Scientists in Congregations. The successful churches have each received grants...

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION In Memoriam: Revd Dr Joel Edwards

It is with great sadness that the ECLAS team heard of the death of Revd Dr Joel Edwards.  Joel was a Visiting Fellow of St John’s College and had completed his DThM recently as a...

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FUNDING This is why seminaries need science

“Test everything; hold fast to what is good.” (I Thessalonians 5:21) What place does science have in seminary? A few weeks ago, I met with seminary teachers to discuss this question. ECLAS, with the support...

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