Science & Faith

The encounter between Jesus and the woman of the well, a Samaritan who lived in the village of Sychar. This is a story about a woman so bowled over by love that she is talking about it all over the market place. She has been in love before. Some of the men in the...

Gregory Bateson was a noted anthropologist who later became very interested in the theory of communications. In the 1950’s one of his teaching assignments was with psychiatric residents at a mental hospital in California. His first assignment to his students was to...

”The Large Hadron Collider, the latest-generation subatomic-particle accelerator, goes online later this year...on the Franco-Swiss border.” So we are told by Richard Panek in his article “Out There” (New York Times Magazine, March 11, 2007). And if the attendant...

On the weekend of May 27-29, 2011, I enjoyed celebrating years of graduation (in my case, 65) with many college friends, and among them I met Thomas Cotton. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Thomas Cotton wrote: Graham: as a student of history...

We are always forgetting things - and then trying to remember. How do we try to remember? we scrabble around trying to connect something we know with the name or date or person we can't remember. Then usually we give up, or take a rest,...

“JESUS is Lord!” “Lift High The Cross!” These slogans stir me throughout my being. But my mind clicks in, to remember the people who have been forced to proclaim the first, or the people for whom the high-lifted cross was a banner of war and...

“All, or nothing at all,” whined the crooners of our youth: love was demanded fully, no holding back. And this call still goes out in different words from the Storm Troopers of religion, and we are told that if we strip off even a glove or a...

The writer Charles Williams (friend of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien) was a brilliant and gifted interpreter of Scripture. In one of Jesus’ parables there is a wedding feast to which all are invited. But one man does not come in a wedding...

At first glance, this weekend’s royal wedding in Westminster Abbey may seem to have little connection with Faith and Science. However it is faith that the couple have promised each other, faith that we have that they will be good partners,...

I was so happy when in the local news I saw pictures of the Youth for Christ practicing their dancing which they do in a regular way as part of their worship. I have tried with the not so young, some in Port Hope, some in Colborne and...

Sir Peter Medawar was one of those scientists whose work has affected people all over the world. A specialist in biology, he developed theory and practice in immunology of great value, when we think of the transplants which have saved...

In an analysis of the creative process Michael Polanyi finds that art, science, and indeed spirituality, arise from the depths of the self with a kind of autonomy and otherness, and are marked with a sense of the wholeness and beauty of what...