God & Nature Magazine
Spring 2018: Chance & Design
Letter from the Editors
Bishop; God, Love and Chance
Bonham; Quantum Reflections
Spaulding; God as Designer
Garte; Teleology in Evolution
Hall; God, Chance and Buridan's Ox
Pohl; Why We Need a Third Culture in Church
Dorman; Liturgical Brain
Warren; Galapagos
Blanchard; On Christian Science
Touryan; The Cross as a Cosmic Filter
Clifford Column; Discipine Hopping
Lemcio; Waves
Harris Artwork
Hearn; Eulogy - Beyond Science,
Winter 2018: Race & Inheritance
A Note from the Editors
Essay: “The Genetics and Theology of Race” by Sy Garte
Essay: "Grieve the Segregation of Science" by S. Joshua Swamidass
Poem: "Cardboard Man" by Ciara Reyes
Featured Interview: “Love Is Risk” with Carolyn Finney
Essay: "Why the Church Needs Intersectional Feminism" by Emily Herrington
Essay & Poem: “Abortion Languages: Love, fear, confusion and loss”
Essay: “Elected to Salvation (and other things?)” by Bill Leonard
Essay: “Local Colour: A reflection on family, history, and heritage” by Mike Clifford
Photo Essay: "Trouble in Paradise: Plastic pollution in the Bahamas" by Grace Swing & Robert D Sluka
Interview: Corina Newsome, environmentalist and animal keeper
Essay: “Spiritual Kin Selection” by Steve Roels
Essay: “Race & Inheritance: Personal reflections and annotations” by Walt Hearn
Interview: Carla Ramos, molecular biologist
Essay: “Some Pastoral Considerations of CRISPR CAS 9 Gene Editing” by Mario A Russo
Past Topics
Summer 17: Cosmology & Theology
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Letter from the Editors: Summer 2017
Essay: "The News from My Home Galaxy" by Walt Hearn
Interview: "Deep Incarnation & the Cosmos: A Conversation with Niels Henrik Gregersen" by Ciara Reyes & Niels Henrik Gregersen
Photo Essay: "Breath & Dust" by Kathleen Eady
Essay: "Why the Eagle Nebula Just Doesn’t Do It For Me" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "The Cosmos in My Hand" by Lucas Mix
Interview: “What is Life? On Earth and Beyond” with Andreas Losch
Artwork by Missy Pellone
Essay: "When God & Science Hide Reality" by Davis Woodworth
Essay: "In Search of Wonder: A Reflection on Reconciling Medieval and Modern Cosmology" by Monica Bennett
Essay: "If Christianity and Cosmology Are in Conflict, Whose Side Is Philosophy on?" by Vaughan Rees
Winter/Spring 17: "Flesh & Blood"
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Letter from the Editor: Winter/Spring 2017
Essay: "Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics: On microbiomes and the meaning of life" by John F. Pohl
Essay: "With All Your Mind" by Paul S. Kindsedt
Essay: "The Stuff of Life" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "Experiencing God’s Love in a Secular Society: A Christian experience with socialized medicine" by Alison Noble
Poem: "The Problem with Pain" by Eugne E. Lemcio
Essay: "Thoughts of Death in a Cruel World: Job’s suicidal ideation and the “right” Christian response to depression" by Jennifer Michael Hecht and Emily Herrington
Essay: "Tissues at Issue" by Walt Hearn
Essay: "The Dilemma of Modern Christianity" by Tony Mitchell
Poem: "Light" by Billie Holladay Skelley
Essay: "Some Theological Implications of Science: Revisiting the Ant" by Mario A. Russo
Summer/Fall 16: "Stewardship of Words"
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Letter from the Editor: Summer 2016
Levity: "Walt Being Walt: Excerpts from the ASA newsletter" by Walt Hearn (compiled by Jack Haas & Emily Ruppel)
Poem: "A Prayer Tribute to Walt and Ginny Hearn" by Paul Fayter
Essay: "Authentic Science & Authentic Christian Faith" by Paul Arveson
Essay: "On Modern-Day Saints & Epistles" by Emily Ruppel
Essay: "Mathematics and the Religious Impulse" by Karl Giberson
Poem: "The Wasteful Gene" by Eugne E. Lemcio
Three Poems by Dan Eumurian
Excerpts from: "The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity" by Edwin Yamauchi
Essay: "A Comprehensible Universe: The blessing from God that makes science possible" by Bob Kaita
Poem: "The Epistolarian" by Emily Ruppel
Spring 16: "Brain Science"
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Letter from the Editor: Spring 2016
Essay: "Ancient Q, Modern A (?)" by Walt Hearn
Essay: "Souls, Brains and People: Who or what are we?" by Gareth D. Jones
Essay: "A Functional Theology of Psychopathology" by Edgar Paul Herrington IV
Three Poems by Richard Gillum
Short Story: "Malefic" by Jeffrey Allen Mays
Essay: "An Engineer Visits a Mindfulness Workshop" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "Traces of Trauma in the Body of Christ: The case of The Place of Refuge" by Elizabeth Hernandez
Essay: "Did God ‘Create’ Science? Christianity and the uniqueness of the human brain" by William H. Church
Winter 16: "Quantum Physics/Epigenetics"
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Letter from the Editor: Winter 2016
Essay: "God and the New Evolutionary Biology" by Sy Garte
Essay: "Quantum Mechanics and the Question of Divine Knowledge" by Stephen J. Robinson
Essay: "Creation Out of... Physics?" by Joshua Scott
Essay: "Of Books and Bosons" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "Words, Words, Words" by Walt Hearn
Poem: "Encountering Ernst Haeckel’s 'Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny'" by Eugene Lemcio
Essay: "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: New conversations and theological questions at the horizons of modern science" by Michael Burdett
Poem: "The Difference" by Emily Ruppel
Essay: "Maupertuis's Ghost: Finding God in 'action'" by Colin C. Campbell
Fall 15: "Technology"
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Letter from the Editor: Fall 2015
Essay: "‘Braving the New World (Wide Web): Mapping Theological Response to Media" by Justin A. Bailey
Poem: "Entropy and Enthalpy" by Glenn R. McGlaughlin
Essay: "‘How Proactive Should Christians Be in Learning about Emerging Biomedical Technologies?" by D. Gareth Jones
Essay: "‘Can We Fix It? Erm..." by Mike Clifford
Poem: "To My Dear Parents" by Sarah Ruden
Essay: "‘Which Side, Lord?" by Walt Hearn
Poem: "The Column" by John F. Pohl
Essay: "‘Technology and the Church" by Derek Schuurman
Poem: "On the Shores of Oroumieh" by Emily Ruppel
Essay: "‘Technology as Discipline" by Johnny Wei-Bing Lin
Summer 15: "Doubt"
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Letter from the Editor: Summer 2015
Essay: "‘The Road Not Taken’: A personal reflection on careers, counterfactuals and callings" by Tim Middleton
Essay: "The Gift of Doubt in My Life" by Rev. Paul Herrington
Poem: "The Marsh Birds" by Sarah Ruden
Essay: "On St Brendan and the Pendulum of Postgraduate Study" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "Doubt: The Invisible Conversation" by Karl W. Giberson
Essay: "Doubt, Faith, and Crevasses on My Mind" by Peter M. J. Hess
Poem: "Magdalene" by Leonore Wilson
Essay: "Breaking Barriers, Ministering in Relationships, and Exemplifying the Gospel" by Stephen Contakes, et al.
Poem: "On the Extinction of Matter Near a Black Hole" by Ruth Hoppin
Essay: "Sometimes I Doubt..." by Walt Hearn
Essay: "The Risks of Love and Life's Big Questions" by Thomas Jay Oord
Spring 15: "Animals/Imago Dei"
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Letter from the Editor: Spring 2015
Essay: "50 Years of Wilderness: a Christian perspective" by Peter van der Burgt
Essay: "All Creatures Great and Small " by Walt Hearn
Essay: "Let There Be Less: A Christian musing on nature, faith, and farmers’ markets" by Emily Ruppel
Poem: "The New Plant and Animal Kingdoms" by Steve Roels
Essay: "Of Wonder and Zebrafish" by Ruth Bancewicz
Essay: "The Lion, the Spider and the Image of God" by Mike Clifford
Cat Poem 1: "Lullaby for Stomp the Cat" by Sarah Ruden
Cat Poem 2: "Letting the Dog In" by Emily Ruppel
Cat Poem 3: "Reading on the Couch" by Carol Ruppel
Essay: "Angry Discussions: A Wrong Way to Stand for Creation Care or Science Advocacy " by Oscar Gonzalez
Essay: "Ethical Eating on a Catholic Campus: Some thoughts from a student of environmental studies" by Grace Mican
Winter 15: "Information"
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Letter from the Editor: Winter 2015
Essay: "What Does it Mean to Know?" by Mark Shelhamer
Essay: "Knowledge of Information" by Randy Isaac
Photo Essay: "Being Here" by Carol Ruppel
Essay: "Truth Anyone?" by Walt Hearn
Poem: "Transformation" by Ruth Hoppin
Interview: "Unpacking Chance, Providence, and the Abraham's Dice Conference" by Olivia Peterson
Essay: "On Knowledge and Information–Tales from an English childhood" by Mike Clifford
Poem: "Space Travel" by Ruth Hoppin
Essay: "Resuming the Science/Faith Conversation" by Jamin Hubner
Fall 14: "History of Science & Christianity"
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Letter from the Editor: Fall 2014
Essay: "Orchids: Why the founders of modern science cultivated virtue" by Ruth Bancewicz
Essay: "Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science" by Edward B. Davis
Essay: "The Other 'Atom' in Christianity and Science" by Karissa D Carlson
Poem: "The Hermit" by Ciara C. Reyes
Essay: "Players" by Walt Hearn
Essay: "Using Storytelling and Drama in Engineering Lectures" by Mike Clifford
Essay: "Is There Anything Historical About Adam and Eve?" by Mike Beidler
Essay: "Finding Harmony in Controversy: The early years of the ASA" by Terry Gray and Emily Ruppel
Levity: "Fish n' Chips" by Mike Arnold
Essay: "Stories" by Walt Hearn
Summer 14: "Christian Women in Science"
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Letter from the Editor: Summer 2014
Essay: "I Really Did That Work: A brief survey of notable Christian Women in Science" by Lynn Billman
Essay: "He + She = We" by Walt Hearn
Photo Essay: "The Faces of Nature" by Susan Limone
Essay: "On Grass that Withers: Overloaded brains and spiritual discernment" by Janet Warren
Interview: "Ancient Humans and Modern Choices" with Briana Pobiner
Essay: "Crystallographer, Quaker, Pacifist, & Trailblazing Woman of Science: Kathleen Lonsdale’s Christian Life 'Lived Experimentally'” by Kylie Miller and Stephen M. Contakes
Artwork: "Eden, Zion" by Harold Sikkema
Essay: "Asking the Right Question" by Dorothy Boorse
Essay: "Is Being a Mother and a Scientist Worth It?" by Abby Hodges
Interview: "Not So Dry Bones" with Mary Schweitzer
Essay: "Playing God: A theological reflection on medicine, divine action, and personhood" by Ann Pederson
Column: Great Gravity! "BNL 1976 – 2000 (Part 1)"
Spring 14: "G&N: The 2-year tour"
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Letter from the Editor: Spring 2014
Essay: "Political Science?" by Walt Hearn
Comic: "Education"
Essay: "Finding Hominids with Kamoya Kimeu" by Fred Heeren
Poem: "Ziggurat (and Helix)" by Amy Chai
Creative Nonfiction: "One Summer" by Dave Harrity
Essay: "Do the Heavens Declare the Glory of God?" by Owen Gingerich
Comic: "Miracle Mechanics" by Emily Ruppel
Essay: "I Sleep A Lot" by Denis O. Lamoureux
Poem: "Angels and RNA" by Walt Hearn
Comic: "Seminary"
Essay: "The Elegance of Antibodies" by Craig M. Story
Photo Essay: "Conversing with Nature" by Thomas Jay Oord
Essay: "Under the Tutelage of Trees: Arboreal Lessons on Virtue, Kinship, and Integrity" by Peter M. J. Hess
Comic: "Humor"
Essay: "Science and Scientism in Biology" by Sy Garte
Interview: "Biopsychology and Faith" with Heather Looy
Winter 14: "Health & Medicine"
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Letter from the Editor: Winter 2014
Poem: I Have a Piece of Cow in My Heart
Essay: Acts of God: Are all mutations random?
Column: Beyond Science
Poem: Psalm 1859
Essay: The Tao of Departing
Photo Essay: Walking in Winter
Essay: A Christian Doctor on Evolution, Faith, and Suffering
Opinion: Making Friends with Frankencorn
Poem: Chiaroscuro
Interview: "Biopsychology and Faith" with Heather Looy
Essay: "The Elegance of Antibodies"
Artwork: "Helix" by Harold Sikkema
Column: Great Gravity! "Dissertations and Revelations"
Fall 13: "Environmentalism"
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Letter from the Editor: Fall 2013
Poem: Time
Essay: Is there Hope for the Ocean?
Artwork: "Earthly Tent" by Harold Sikkema
Essay: What is Responsible Eating?
Essay: Are We Too Obsessed with Food?
Poem: Conversation on Creation
Essay: Creation Care from the Perspective of a Conservation Geneticist
Essay: Mobilizing Scientists for Environmental Missions
Poem: Paleocene Spring
Interview: Dorothy Boorse
Column: Beyond Science
Essay: New Testament Motivation for Environmental Stewardship
Poem: Stone of House
Column: Great Gravity! "Running the Data"
Summer 13: "Science & Creativity"
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Column: Beyond Science
Letter from the Editor: Summer 2013
Column: Faith on the Field
Poem: Trying Not to Be Too Sunny
Comic: "Work in Progress"
Essay: Do the Heavens Declare the Glory of God?
Essay: Science, Faith, and Creativity
Essay: One Summer
Comic: "Miracle Mechanics"
Featured Essay: Poetry for Scientists
Artwork: "Confluence" by Harold Sikkema
Column: Great Gravity! "The Great Ungainly Journey West"
Spring 13
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Letter from the Editor: Spring 2013
Column: Faith on the Field
Faith on the Field, cont.
Poem: Scientist's Psalm
Essay: A Downcast Spirit Dries Up the Bones: More perspectives on depression
Artwork: "Lipo Osteo" by Harold Sikkema
Feature: The Bible, Evolution, and Grace
Column: Beyond Science
Book Review: Prisoners of Hope
Column: Great Gravity! "The Grad School Years"
Winter 13
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Letter from the Editor: Winter 2013
Column: Faith on the Field
Comic: "Apples to Apples"
Creative Nonfiction: "One Winter"
Column: Clearing the Middle Path
Essay: Science and Scientism in Biology
Poem: "Angels and RNA"
Feature Article: I Sleep A Lot
Poem: "Fragile"
Column: Beyond Science
CiS 2012 Student Essay Contest: Runner Up
Essay: Why Awe?
CiS 2012 Student Essay Contest: First Place
Column: Great Gravity! "A Bit of Perspective"
Column: Modern Frontiers, Ancient Faith
Column: Time Capsule
Fall 12
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Letter from the Editor: Fall 2012
The Director's Corner
Column: Faith on the Field
Comic: "Education"
Interview: Greetings from Mars!
Column: Clearing the Middle Path
Photo Essay: "Conversing with Nature"
Comic: "Abe"
Essay: Evolution and Imago Dei
Poem: "Locus Iste"
Levity: Beyond Science
Essay: God, Occam, and Science
Opinion: Humility and Grace
Levity: Great Gravity! "The College Years"
Poem: "Q.E.D."
Essay: My Overlapping Magisteria
Column: Time Capsule
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Winter 2018 Contents
A Note
from the Editors
Essay: “The Genetics and Theology of Race” by Sy Garte
Essay: “Grieve the Segregation of Science” by S. Joshua Swamidass
Poem: "Cardboard Man" by Ciara Reyes
F
eatured Interview: "Love is Risk" with Carolyn Finney
Essay: "Why the Church Needs Intersectional Feminism: On waking up" by Emily Herrington
Essay & Poem: “Abortion Languages: Love, fear, confusion and loss” by Heather Hyden
Essay: “Elected to Salvation (and other things?)” by Bill Leonard
Essay: “Local Colour: A reflection on family, history, and heritage” by Mike Clifford
Photo Essay: "Trouble in Paradise: Plastic pollution in the Bahamas" by Grace Swing & Robert D Sluka
Interview: Corina Newsome, environmentalist and animal keeper
Essay: “Spiritual Kin Selection” by Steve Roels
Essay: "Race & Inheritance: Personal reflections and annotations" by Walt Hearn
Interview: Carla Ramos, molecular biologist
Essay: “Some Pastoral Considerations of CRISPR CAS 9 Gene Editing” by Mario A Russo
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