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CHURCH ACTION 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...

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History of science and religion 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...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS 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...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS 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...

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RESEARCH CERIE: Bridging Evangelical Thought and Contemporary Issues

This is a guest post by Rachel Vaughan, CERIE. Last year, the Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne (IBN) and the Groupes Bibliques Universitaires (GBU) launched the Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Évangélique (CERIE), a new...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS Celebration and humility on the anniversary of VE Day

This is a transcript of an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, broadcast on 5 May 2025. Later today, the VE Day celebrations will feature extracts from Churchill’s famous “This is your...

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CHURCH ACTION 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...

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Cosmology The strongest evidence yet of life beyond Earth?

Earlier this month, a team of astronomers led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge published data from the James Webb Space Telescope and claimed, “This is the strongest evidence yet there is...

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