by Michelle Sioson | Jul 17, 2024 | Science and Religion
John Lennox, Christian apologist and professor emeritus of mathematics at Oxford, reminds us that while science can tell us how our world works, it cannot tell us anything about why we are here. His observation strikes me as unarguably true, but it begs the question...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 7, 2024 | Science and Religion
What the Evidence Says about What’s True Ever since I was old enough to think about the world, I have wanted to understand what is true. I have never been a post-modernist, one of those people who think that reality is nothing but a social construct, devised and...
by Sam Mitchell | Jan 23, 2023 | Science and Religion
I think all who call themselves Christians would assent to certain foundational beliefs: There is a single consciousness – spirit or logos – that has created from nothing all reality: spacetime, energy, a world of unimaginable beauty and complexity, us. We call this...
by Sam Mitchell | Dec 9, 2022 | Science and Religion
Ever since I first read the story of Job decades ago, it has bothered me. The oldest story in the Bible, it addresses head-on the question that plagues anyone who takes God seriously: How can a loving God stand by while a good person suffers? The story begins with a...
by Sam Mitchell | Feb 9, 2021 | Science and Religion
My wife, Mary, and I are estranged Episcopalians. We both, however, have an interest in understanding whether the story of Christianity is true. If it isn’t, humanity is in trouble at least in the very long run. According to the current scientific understanding of how...
by Sam Mitchell | Jan 24, 2021 | Science and Religion
A man I knew, a very nice man, recently died after a period of horrible suffering from an aggressive cancer. He was 55. His death got me thinking about how anyone can have faith in a loving God when contemplating the hellish, pervasive suffering we all see, and...
