SciTech† for February 2025
Welcome to the February 2025 edition of SciTech†. Read the articles below, or download the issue in PDF format.
Theology for a Nuclear Age, Forty Years On
Harvard theologian Gordon D. Kaufman, who died in 2011, was known for his pioneering work in re-assessing and reconstructing theological claims in light of modern scientific knowledge and contemporary challenges. This year, 2025, marks the fortieth anniversary of...
PASTCF Awards
Call for Nominations The Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith recognizes members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) who have distinguished themselves in the furtherance of PASTCF’s objectives, either in the church or in the wider...
Have you read?
Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things. Peter Manseau and Andrew Ali Aghapour. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2022. 159 pages Reviewed by E. Harold Breitenberg, Jr. This delightfully informative, intellectually stimulating, and...
Growing Faith: A Bible Study for Churches about Our Climate Crisis
The excerpt below comes to us from Rachelle McCalla, author of the Bible study. Rachelle is a Presbyterian minister in Iowa, but the Bible study is intended for Christians of any denomination, living anywhere in the world. The entire Bible study is available for...
Serendipity and the Rewriting of History
We are all aware that scientific research sometimes leads to unexpected discoveries. Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin is a well-known example, when he noticed that bacteria were being killed in a neglected petri dish in which mold had been...
Recent Scholarship on Science, Technology, and Religion
Individuals, families, churches, denominations, and the broader society are, in various ways, concerned with science, technology, and the Christian faith. These areas of life influence, interact with, and respond to each other. They are at the heart of PASTCF....
PC(USA) on the Nuclear Age and Climate Change
Two articles in this issue of SciTech† focus on conditions of continuing importance for Christian faith and practice: the nuclear age and climate change. Some of the various statements, policy papers, articles and other materials pertaining to both topics produced...
Of Interest: Online science and religion videos, COVID’s Impact on U.S. and Religion
Online science and religion videos One of the leading organizations involved in research about religion and science is the University of Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion. The Centre’s “About Us” webpage provides this description: The Ian Ramsey...
