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PDF | Audio | Text: Proverbs 9:1-6 (Proper 15, Year B, RCL) God meets us in our mess. Jesus blesses our human experience by coming down from heaven and sharing that experience in the Incarnation. We are sanctified by the living Christ as if by the smoke of a hundred and eighty pound thurible swung from…

“We answer that …” a proper updating of the scientific worldview, one that incorporates the findings of quantum mechanics and chaos/complexity theory, brings us “into a wider world” indeed. In this world, it is not so hard to conceive of God’s divine action having a place, and it is perhaps impossible to rule such action…

“On the contrary …” the worldview that began to emerge with the rise of disciplined scientific thinking was fairly hostile to the idea of God’s action in the world. At the heart of this worldview was an awareness of mechanisms, the increasingly complex machines that began to emerge during this period with the help of…

“We answer that …” both the religious and scientific perspectives have important and complementary insights to offer to any worldview that takes full and proper account of the complexity and wonder of life of Earth. From a religious perspective, we take as essential that life, and especially human life, does have purpose and meaning. From…

“It would seem…” from the traditional Judeo-Christian perspective that the universe was created by God “[i]n the beginning” and consists, fundamentally, of “the heavens and the earth” (see Genesis 1:1). You may be surprised to learn how difficult it is to say much more than that without stepping into highly contested theological territory. Below we’ll…

“It would seem…” from the traditional Judeo-Christian perspective that the universe was created by God “[i]n the beginning” and consists, fundamentally, of “the heavens and the earth” (see Genesis 1:1). You may be surprised to learn how difficult it is to say much more than that without stepping into highly contested theological territory. Below we’ll…

If I’m understanding it correctly, then I’m massively disappointed with how someone (Gizmodo? headline writers?) is shaping reports of NASA’s new findings on Gammaproteobacteria GFAJ-1. The first release I read, by Gizmodo at Wired Science via an excerpt on Episcopal Café (I love my church), made it sound like a life form had been discovered…

Well, we’re three days into our CPE, and we visited patients for the first time today (shadowing full-time chaplains). I was struck by how fast it all went; in an hour we

void Material::updateCommod(Commodity newType){ if (newType == myType) { throw MatException( “Attempted to change Material’s Commodity type to its current type”); } myType = newType;} void Material::changeCommod(Commodity newCommod){ if (newCommod == myType) throw MatException(“Tried to change Commodity type to the current type.”); myType = newCommod;}