Religion and science have a reputation for conflict. Religious institutions have long viewed scientific observation and discovery as threats to their authority, and the scientific community has long ...

Goshen College will host its 25th annual Conference on Religion and Science on March 6-8, featuring keynote speaker Wesley J. Wildman, professor of philosophy, theology and ethics and of ...

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion; By Nicholas Spencer; Oneworld Publications; 480 pp., $32.00 It’s also largely, albeit not entirely, apocryphal. Far from being at each ...

Gone are the days when the protagonist, Robert Langdon, was sent off on a globe-trotting adventure thriller. In the latest title, Langdon seems to have a less important role in the narrative, and his ...

For the past 20 years, Elaine Howard Ecklund has studied scientists’ attitudes towards religion. What she’s found, through more than 40,000 surveys and nearly 2,500 confidential interviews, is that ...

Sociology can help us see neglected drivers of religious beliefs. But it shouldn’t lose focus on the beliefs themselves. You should read Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of ...

For centuries there has been tension—in churches, the academies, and the public square—between science and religion. Each makes truth claims and addresses essential questions. Science looks at the ...

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict? Religion and science have had some famously messy fights, but do they always have to be in conflict? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, ...

The “Great Commoner,” William Jennings Bryan, an outspoken proponent of the historic Christian faith, and the “Great Agnostic,” Clarence Darrow, a critic of Bryan and the faith he espoused, headlined ...

Why do scientists turn to questions traditionally reserved for the humanities? Tom McLeish argues for a deep kinship between the two spheres. "Students don't have time for electives. Rather than ...