Science & Faith

We have a local man of otherwise exemplary life, who when asked the population of the village, began enumerating from memory the inhabitants of every house, street by street! As I said to an enthusiastic fellow preacher once, “You are not...

Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel lost a baby boy at a time of great stress for the family. Alec Bell (as he was known) was deeply grieved, but accepted much self-blame for having been away at the time. Bell scarcely believed in God;...

The scene is northeastern Japan, aerial photos before - property, estate housing, industry, transportation, roads, aircraft, sea craft. Then move the cursor from right to left and there is after: some outlines remain, but a brown sludge has...

In the 2001 census analysis of religious groups in Ontario, the largest grouping is Roman Catholic; the second largest is “no religion.” How many of the “no religion” populace are deterred or disgusted by a blatant use of power, emotional...

Whether or not we believe in God, we have a dawning understanding that the world we live in is on loan to us, and that if we do not treat it with care, we may lose it. There was an enthusiastic bishop preaching in St James’ Cathedral, saying...

Almost any talk of science and faith reveals that many people believe that these two ways of looking at reality are in conflict. This was not so in the days of the great philosopher René Descartes, or the great scientist, Isaac Newton. They...

The story of Jesus is the story of a man who risked his life for the sake of truth. His chief disciples were less committed to risk until he set the example. But there were least two senior members of the social establishment who urged...

When we moved into a house in Old Cabbagetown, about to start a family, a nine year old from next door came in to watch us arranging our things. Then she saw a crucifix on the wall, the kind St Francis of Assisi liked, a dying, naked Christ....

Christians believe that Jesus died for our sins, and that by his passion and death we have been liberated into a new life. Let’s look at this belief. A classic interpretation of Jesus on the Cross is that the world was held captive by Satan,...

CURIOUS: How did this vision of a suffering servant come to be linked with redemption from sin? EAGER: Human beings are from their very animal beginnings social beings, and social beings learn what is right and what is wrong. CURIOUS: I...

CURIOUS: Where and how do we find a vulnerable God? EAGER: We do not have to look far. The mythologies of the world provide us with gods who have to die at the end of the harvest season, who then go down into the world of the dead, and come...

EAGER: Matthew Lamb, in a symposium of theologians entitled Paradigm Change in Theology, agrees with others that Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) not only demonstrated that revolutions take place in science through...