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Faith Made Welcome! A New Podcast brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church and This Most Unbelievable Life will launch in August 2020. This podcast will explore topics related to spiritual formation from the lens of a progressive baptist church’s faith community.
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Monday Sep 07, 2020
Troubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 1
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Today we kick off the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
For the next month and half, our podcast will feature discussions about the intersections and relationship between faith and science. Today’s episode is the first of a multi-part discussion between Faith Made Welcome regulars Robin, Marty, Cheri and Paul (if he wasn’t a regular before, he is now!) and Dr. Graham Walker, Marty and Robin’s Theology professor from seminary!
In this episode of the podcast, you’ll hear the Faith Made Welcome Team wrestle with humanity’s interest in the big questions: “where do we come from?” and “what is our purpose?”
About Dr. Graham Walker
Graham is a professor at McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. He describes himself as someone who has been working with “the interface between science and theology for a long time.” He’s worked with Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, a program through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that focuses on facilitating dialogue between scientific and religious communities.
Scripture Mentioned this Episode
Additional Materials Mentioned this Episode
We’ve elected to list these references in the order they appear:
- Pew Research: Robin references studies that examine the cause for folks leaving the church today, which commonly cite “science” as being a leading reason for a move away from religion.
- Elie Wiesel: Graham references the opening quote from Wiesel’s famous book, Gates of the Forest
- Stephen Hawking: Graham notes the kinds of research questions that guided Hawking's research on the beginnings of the universe.
- Edward Wilson: Graham makes a reference to the concept of consilience, which Wilson wrote about his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge; additionally he references his books On Human Nature and The Creation.
- Ian Barbour: Graham refers to Barbour’s models of faith and identity-making statements, which are discussed in his book When Science Meets Religion
- David E. Shi: Graham references Shi as being one among many researchers today working on the importance of narrative in the story of humanity. Shi is the author of the best-selling textbook America: a Narrative History
- Contact (Film): Graham discusses the way this film does an excellent job depicting the possible relationships between science and religion.
- Ptolemy: Graham references Ptolemy’s geocentric model
- ISS Detector: Graham references apps like these which can alert users for when the International Space Station is visible to us.
- Human Interference Task Force: Graham discusses this fascinating project wherein folks collaborated to figure out how to pass on information (particularly warnings) from generation to generation.
- Peter Berger: Graham discusses Bergers’ stance on pluralism, which is further discussed in this article “The Good of Religious Pluralism”
- David Hume: Graham attributes Berger’s treatment of doubt as coming from Hume’s work.
- John Polkinghorne and Frances Collins: Graham mentions both of these folks as examples of people who are both scientists and believers.
- Tikkun olam: Graham discusses this concept from Judaism, which means “to mend the world”
About This Podcast
This podcast was envisioned as means to foster spiritual growth and conversations about faith, both within and beyond the faith community at Commonwealth Baptist Church. At the open of this episode, we discuss what spiritual formation means to our CBC pastors and the role community plays in our concept of faith.
Got a question or want to reach out to the Faith Made Welcome team? You can reach us at faithmadewelcome@gmail.com.
Faith Made Welcome is produced by Cheri Spiegel, Paul Fitzgerald and This Most Unbelievable Life.
A Note on the Links in these Shownotes
The links to books mentioned in this episode direct to Old Town Books. We’re not sponsored by this bookstore; we just believe in supporting our local community! If you’re not an Alexandrian, we hope you’ll check these out at your local bookstore!
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