PASTCF President Mark Douglas
First, a few additions to housekeeping matters I wrote about in the May issue. The 2024 Nominating Committee consists of Damaris Christensen (chair), Bob Keefer, and Bill Brown. Rachelle McCalla will take over as PASTCF’s Facebook administrator: with deep thanks to...
This will mainly be a report from the April PASTCF Board meeting. Every year in April Board members attend the Ecumenical Roundtable (ERT) and use the occasion to have an extended (hybrid) Board meeting. These days, the science, technology, and faith work within...
Last fall my wife and I finally made the trip to celebrate our 50th anniversary. We went to Jordan, arriving there on 8 October 2023(!). I was going to write about that in this column - Jordan is a marvelous country, full of (biblical) history:
Recently, two activities involving the oceans caught my attention: on the surface, the distribution of invasive species, and at the bottom, deep-ocean mining.
Pondering this time between Easter and Pentecost, it occurred to me that something amazing happened during that interval, epitomized by the journey to Emmaus: the disciples were finally getting it!
Recently, I have run into several instances where people are wondering about life elsewhere in the universe. And I don’t mean reports that Google’s AI engine thought that JWST had seen the first extrasolar planet. I mean consideration of the question in a much more thoughtful way.
At this time we have lived with a pandemic for more than a year and a half. I took a look at the column I wrote for the May 2020 issue of SciTech†. I was right, sadly, that we would be fighting the pandemic for a long time and that period would leave a dark legacy....
A PASTCF member asked me recently about extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI) and why ETI beings have not contacted us, yet. Let’s check the sequence of questions that would lead us there. [Some of these considerations also appear in my review of two Books by Martin...
Reflections on Teaching at the Interface of Science and Religion
Report on Spring PASTCF Board Meeting
White, Bacon, and Nature
The First Great English Scientist: Sir Francis Bacon
Global Perspectives on Science and Christianity
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
From the Editor’s Desk
Of Interest
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