“Religion and science are two quite different things and we need them both. Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” More →

February 20, 2015

Director Terrence Malik’s new movie is a meditation on traditional Christian questions about evil, suffering, grace, and beauty, says Calvin College professor of English Roy Anker. More →

January 24, 2012

“Every time you eat, you give expression to what you think the world ought to be,” says Norman Wirzba, a professor of theology, ecology, and rural life at Duke Divinity School. More →

July 16, 2010

Writing in the New York Times about “Avatar” (“Luminous 3-D Jungle is a Biologist’s Dream”) , Carol Kaesuk Yoon rhapsodizes over the beauty and variety of life depicted in the film. “With each glance, we are reminded of organisms we … More →

February 2, 2010

Watch more of Bob Abernethy’s conversation with Rabbi Jack Moline about the theological questions raised by natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.  

January 29, 2010

From Haiti to the Holocaust to 9/11, and at all times of extreme human suffering, cataclysm, and catastrophe, people have asked questions about the role of God and his purposes. Watch excerpts from some of our recent interviews about Haiti … More →

January 29, 2010

Science and religion are sometimes at odds over the environment, but this prominent biologist is pleading for both to work together in order to protect the earth’s biodiversity. More →

November 17, 2006

Read more of Bob Abernethy’s October 16, 2006 interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with E.O. Wilson: Q: As briefly and as strongly as you can put it, what do you want all of us to do? A: I want us to … More →

November 17, 2006

Read an excerpt from THE CREATION: AN APPEAL TO SAVE LIFE ON EARTH by E.O. Wilson (Norton, 2006), written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist pastor: I’ve tried not to water down in any way the … More →

November 17, 2006