SOSC – Entangled States

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Hammering God-talk to suit the enthusiasms of the moment

January 17, 2025

An excellent point… Instead of trying to change the paradigms of society and culture, whole generations of preachers, scholars, and theologians have been asking how they can communicate the Gospel and make it understandable and relevant to the modern world, and in answer they have been trying to fit the Christian message to the paradigms of the community—otherwise, they argue, people today would not understand what Christianity is about. Torrance, T. F. (1980). The ground […]

Epiphany, the premier feast of the Society of Ordained Scientists

January 3, 2025

by Nicholas Knisely

Uncategorized

Understanding Epiphany: Signs of God in Science and Faith | Lucas’s Weblog: [T]he story of the Magi praises curiosity and diligence, two virtues essential to good science. Epiphany captures the unified joy of Ordained Scientists, who witness to a God that speaks to us in multiple ways. The truth cannot be confined to secular or sacred realms. Ultimately the two cannot be separated or set at odds. Our ways of knowing are different – and […]

Living at Human Speed

January 13, 2020

by Nicholas Knisely

Web/Tech

We’ve become slaves to the pace of the technology in our lives. My “epiphany” this first week of Epiphany was that I don’t have to let myself get caught up in the machine pace of daily life, especially when I’m on a break.

Pursuing the Mystery of Science and Faith – a sermon

May 14, 2014

by Nicholas Knisely

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 […]