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How quantum theory helps us understand intercession

October 22, 2015

SOSc

Christianity Today on whether prayers make an external difference: This means that at the macro level as well as the micro, the idea that the world is fixed and predictable is just wrong, and that arguments against an interventionist God don’t work. So, Wilkinson says, chaos might give “space for God to work in unusual and specific ways within the scientific description of the world”. Again, he quotes John Polkinghorne, who says that chaos means […]

Lucas Mix: Toward a definition of Life

October 19, 2015

by Nicholas Knisely

My friend Lucas Mix, who is Warden of the North American Chapter of the Religious Order of which I am a member is working on a definition of “life” – a project which is taking on new significance now that we have found water on Mars… He writes in introduction to a series of posts he’s planning: I would like to suggest five prominent approaches to how we model life. I do not claim these […]

Connection is the cure to addiction

February 6, 2015

by Nicholas Knisely

Books / Current Affairs / SOSc

Jesus teaches us how to live in real, life giving community. Perhaps we need to by a lot more intentional about reorienting our focus from celebrating the life giving relationships and faith we find in church to going out into the world and inviting people in pain to find life with us.

Is there any objective reality at all?

February 3, 2015

by Nicholas Knisely

Science / SOSc

"As measurements improve further, physicists will be left with two possible interpretations of the wavefunction: either the wavefunction is completely real, or nothing is."

Anglicanism and Evolution; “show, don’t tell”

November 10, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

Religion / Science / SOSc

What do Anglicans believe about evolution and the relationship between science and faith? That it's a fantastically interesting conversation with lots for both parties to learn.

Divine Uncertainty: “Jonathan Edwards in a New Light”

November 5, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

SOSc

"Jonathan Edwards' statements about fundamental reality are based on the nature of light, not as metaphor but as model for all aspects of being, from time to consciousness and selfhood, to love, to the experience of the sacred, to ontology, to God Himself."

The Bishop of London on the nature of Truth

September 2, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

Religion / SOSc

[T]ruth expresses itself as an economy in which the various elements of the truth aspect and balance one another. The truth is not to be encapsulated in a neat formula. It exists as a massive symphony, where the truth is given by the interplay of the various parts. If you omit any part of it, then there is a reaction and exaggeration of the missing element.

Faith or Humility?

August 26, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

Religion / SOSc

There are multiple paradigms that have served the Church in its attempt to understand that actions of God in Jesus’ earthly ministry. But we always tend to look at each story through one set of lenses at a time.

Pursuing the Mystery of Science and Faith – a sermon

May 14, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

Religion / Science / Sermons and audio / SOSc

I preached this sermon last week at the 2014 Ecumenical Round Table meeting on Science, Technology and the Church meeting in Salt Lake City last week. A rabbi once told me, in a conversation about faith and science, that God hides the truth from us, and expects us to work, using all of our faculties to find it. That’s a counter to the common understanding of how Science or Theology work, but for those of […]

What’s going on with the new data from BICEP?

March 18, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

Science / SOSc

I've seen a number of news reports over the last day talking about the newly announced detection of primordial gravity waves by the BICEP program at the South Pole. Most of them trumpet these results as proving the Big Bang. That's not what's going on here.