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Bereshith: Judeo-Christian Genesis
For the Judeo-Christian view of cosmogenesis we go to the opening chapter of the Bible, known in English as...
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Flying By Instrument: The difference between doing and feeling like your doing
Last week I wrote about the way my ambitions shrank to a more human scale at midlife. Before my...
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Reinventing Science Education in the 21st Century
The history of the universe, the evolution of life, and the rise of human civilizations are in fact a...
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Ancient Cultural Visions of Genesis
Every culture has its own cosmogony. The stories of genesis are perhaps the first great scientific theories. For they...
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Kurt Gödel’s Mathematical and Scientific Perspective of the Divine: A Rational Theology
Kurt Gödel, the preeminent mathematical logician of the twentieth century, is best known for his celebrated Incompleteness Theorems; yet...
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Flow: Being a player at work makes work feel like play
By now you’ve no doubt heard of “flow,” the highly pronounceable psychological term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist...
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Psychology’s Love-Hate Relationship with Love: Critiques and Affirmations
Psychologists’ modest contributions to our understanding of compassionate love may be attributed in substantial measure, I think, to psychologists’...
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Pensées
Posthumously published in 1669, the Pensées (literally, “thoughts”) consists of jottings and ideas in defense of the Christian faith...
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Letter and Spirit: Two-fisted adventures at home and in the classroom
I grew up in a very nice home on Chicago’s South Side, two stories with a full attic and...
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Science as Theology
Every theology is based on some doctrines. In fact, a set of doctrines is sometimes referred to as a...