A Theology of Quantum Mechanics

With a scientific mindset, it can be difficult to rationalize spiritual interfaces with physical reality. By the end of this article, we should have at least a framework of reason in which to approach these questions.

Ronald Davis III | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2018

Positivism and the Burden of Proof

To distinguish scientific from non-scientific questions, positivists used the verifiability principle, on which a question could be considered scientific if and only if it could be verified empirically.

Will Vickery | The UT Austin Texas Trinitas | Fall 2018

Prayer and the Brain: A Meta-Analysis of Neurological Activity During Christian Prayer

This review aims to converge the neurological and theological perspectives instead of using one to support or reject the other and vice versa.

Julie Cho | Claremont hearhere | Fall 2018

A Clash in the Cosmos: Reflections on Madeleine L’Engle’s Classic Novel

A Wrinkle in Time might open with an ominous dark and stormy night, but the novel goes on to triumphantly remind us that love and light will ultimately prevail.

Naomi Kim | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2018

An Interview with Jonathan Moo

"I think the reason Christians care for creation can be summarized by loving God and loving our neighbor, and in the process discovering who we were created to be."

Siobhan McDonough | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017

Scientias Religionis

In this article I hope to shed some light on those areas in which behavioral biology actually has a lot to say about the religious experience.

Hailey Reneau | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017

Discerning the Image: Grappling with the bioethics of genetic technologies

The beginning of Christian ethical reflection on human dignity begins with the radical assertion that humans are created in the image of God, or the Imago Dei. But what exactly does this mean?

Rev. Dr. Nathan Barczi | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018

Consider Creation

As both a Christian and a long-time lover of nature, this article will seek to present why Christians should promote environmental stewardship.

Marta Galambos | Cal Poly Aletheia | Spring 2018

The Greater Miracle

Hume says that because experience is infallibly linked to natural reality, testimony cannot cast even a shadow of doubt on sensory information, and the two cannot epistemically oppose each other.

Hope Chang | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016

The Body of Christ: Notes from an Anatomist

However, if working with deceased bodies provides any insight, I can say this: understanding the water-sacks we inhabit falls far short of knowing the full complexity of personhood.

Aldis Petriceks | Stanford Vox Clara | Winter 2018

Living in a Secular Age

In the end, secularity is a broadening of people’s experiences with where they locate meaning. From this lens, secularity doesn’t look so much like a good or bad thing, but more as an opportunity.

Noah Black | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017

The Numinous and the Natural: Christianity and Environmentalism

The Tragedy of the Commons shows us that the destruction of the environment is an issue regarding not only how people relate to one another, but also how we relate to nature.

Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017

The Heart of Mental Health

This, then, is the crux of the conception of mental health suggested by the Christian worldview: being mentally well is more than reducing a negative display of symptoms.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017

The Caring Approach

In showing compassion, sympathy and empathy through His miracles, Jesus also revolutionized the way we approach the sick by demonstrating how powerful these qualities are.

Tori Ranero | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2016

Boundaries

We invite you to look for the beauty that boundaries can create and to heal the wounds cut by divisive boundaries.

Laura Clark | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Insights from Professor Chuck Huff

"Do you have any particular examples from your classes where people have really thought through or wrestled with the issues of religion and science?"

Avodah Editorial Staff | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015

The Autonomous Veneer of Scientific Innovation

Research has pushed the bounds of knowledge and understanding to great lengths, addressing some of the most complex issues in physics, engineering, and medicine, but for what purpose?

Chris Korenczuk | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Fall 2016

The Climate Change Distraction

For me to simply say that the climate is changing does not address the greater issue. The problem is that people are not motivated to care for the environment.

Brad Gordon | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Fall 2016

Veritas Forum: Selfish Genes, Generous Soul?

Columbia Prof. Hughes then asked UNC Chapel Hill Prof. Sethupathy how there could be no evidence of God. The universe, to Hughes, didn’t seem to require a God.

Crystal Ren | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015 (blog)

An Interview with Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan

"Dealing with uncertain environmental problems, where we only see part of the system, has helped me appreciate what we do in a faith sense."

Gabrielle Moss | The Johns Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Petitionary Prayer: Why it Matters

Why is petitionary prayer necessary? And how are we, if at all, to determine its efficacy?

Jiaying Lim | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016

Revisiting the Concept of Scientism: An Interview with MIT Professor Dr. Ian Hutchinson

"Historically, Christianity was in many respects a fertile philosophical and theological environment in which science, as we know it, got going."

Anelise Powers | CalPoly Aletheia | Fall 2016

In the Beginning, [Insert Here] Created the Heavens and the Earth

In fact, as an important parallel, the vast majority of Christians in fields of theology have abandoned a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation in favor of a more symbolic and poetic account.

Collin English | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

4 Take-Aways from the Veritas Forum: Does Science Point to Atheism?

Both panelists agreed on the constant thirst for truth present in both science and religion, and the “obvious tension” in their differences.

Monica Perez | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

A Defense of Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument from Contingency

Cosmological arguments attempt to demonstrate the existence of a deity based on the mere existence of the universe.

Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Rediscovering Aristotle, Aquinas, and Classical Theism: an interview with Edward Feser

A former atheist, Dr. Feser converted back to the Catholicism of his youth after an extensive study of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought and philosophy.

The Dartmouth Apologia | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

I have come to think that science and religion are complementary pictures of truth, answering the questions of ‘how?’ and ‘why?’

Vitaly Andreev | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

Why Truth Matters: A Christian’s Role in the Pursuit of Knowledge

With these (mostly) postmodern developments, one would think that discerning the truth is a uniquely postmodern conundrum.

Jennifer Schmitt | UMinnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection? Three Hypotheses

I’m a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, and today, I am celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. So are dozens of my colleagues. How can this be?

Ian Hutchinson | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

An Interview with Robert Horner: Science and Religion

"So would you say that science and religion, for you personally, have been two separate lives?"

Sam Paek | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016

The Dilemma of Faith in a Secular Age

Likewise, ours is an age in which believers and non-believers alike struggle with doubt about whether our beliefs are indeed the right ones.

Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Genetically Modified Crops and a Christian Worldview

Modern food production has come a long way since the times recorded in Genesis, but the issues farmers face today are the same.

Megan Stevens | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

Quasars, Pulsars, Black Holes, and God

In addition to the idea of causality, the seemingly inexplicable order and structure of the universe puzzled me.

Isaac Bautista | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015

Is Genesis 1 Really About Creationism?

A quick confession: I used to be really, really creationist.

Colin Aitken | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

For the Good of All Creation: A Christian Ecological Ethic

Ecological crisis, whether as dramatic as some predict or not, means we must reconsider the beliefs implicit in a system that exploits humans, creatures, and natural resources.

Nicole Newell | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015

Faith and Learning

Does Christianity pose a challenge to intellectual inquiry?

Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

The Implications of Naturalism and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness

An interview with Dr. Michael Rea, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

The Dartmouth Apologia Staff | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

Human Dignity and the Image of God

A naturalistic conception of reality that holds on to ethereal conceptions of the individual cannot give an account for human dignity and worth.

Mwangi Thuita | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015

Review of How (Not) to be Secular by James K. A. Smith

How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is what the author himself, James K. A. Smith, calls “your hitchhiker’s guide to the present.”

Nicholas Chuan | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2015

How Christians Navigate College and Career

I talked with six Christian seniors at Harvard, each with varying concentrations and potential career paths, to understand how Christians at Harvard think about their faith, academics, and future careers.

Brooke Dickens | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015

The Religious Beliefs of Scientists

At first glance, there seems to be no doubt that scientists as a whole affiliate less with religion than the general public.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

To Become the One Who is Near to Others

Beneficent action does not entail benevolent action, does not entail that we learn to genuinely love the good of others for their sake,

Michael Spezio | The Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015

Abortion and Social Justice

The greatest burden for the woman, more than an unplanned pregnancy, is the burden of living but knowing that she felt her circumstances forced her to terminate a human life within her.

Allen Huang | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2015

This Fine-Tuned Universe

The fact that our universe is life-permitting doesn’t give us evidence for the Many Universe Hypothesis. It does, however, give us evidence for a fine-tuning God.

Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blog

Review of The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

Science and religion may never ever get back together in the same way, but Dolnick reminds us that in the not-so-distant past, they were once brothers.

Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blog

And He Began to Teach Them Many Things

An interview with Professor Matthew Harrison, who previously wrote an article called "Invited to Care" about his calling to teach mathematics to those in prison.

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

Can Science Replace God?

Much of modern debate between atheists and theists has centered on a purported conflict between science and religion.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

The Universe: Magical, Meaningful, and Modern

Can a materialistic, physicalist account of the universe answer the fundamental questions of our existence—what does it mean to be human?

Marylynne Sitko | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Reflections on the Writings of William Jewett Tucker

William Jewett Tucker holds a special place in Dartmouth College history as a graduate of the class of 1861 and as the College’s ninth president.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Does God Play Dice?

How could God (knowingly, deliberately) create a process that brings about outcomes that He Himself does not know and cannot predict?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

December 2018