Ministers

What Incarnation Tells us About Faith & Science

By sareymartin / December 3, 2019 /

This piece was originally shared in the December 2018 edition of our STAR Newsletter, but if you missed it then, here’s a something a little faith&science-y to kick of 2019’s Advent season. The STAR Office is working on a reunion of sorts. There’s a way of looking at the world that for many people, has…

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Tweet of the Week

By sareymartin / November 15, 2019 /

“People’s sense that there generally is a conflict between religion and science seems to have less to do with their own religious beliefs than it does with their perceptions of other people’s beliefs.” Greg Cootsona partnered with STAR on the STEAM Project, as well as our SinC Assessment Summit. He cares a lot about faith/science unity, and…

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Some Science for your Plpit

By sareymartin / October 25, 2019 /

How normal is it for you to hear something science-related at church on Sunday morning? Can you think of a time that you heard of a new finding from psychology or biochemistry, from your pastor’s sermon? This is the kind of thing we sought to encourage through the Plpit project. We ran a series of…

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Running Low on STEAM? We Can Help

By sareymartin / October 24, 2019 /

Yikes… Using bad puns in blog posts already. Sorry, guys. STEAM actually stands for “Science and Theology for Emerging Adult Ministries.” Maybe you actually are running low on science and theology in your church or para-church ministry groups for young adults. Well, you’ve come to the right place. The STEAM Project was the product of…

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What is STAR even?

By sareymartin / October 24, 2019 /

STAR was started within Fuller Seminary, as a department that develops projects with scholars and experts, having to do with the integration of faith and the sciences. But we have since attempted to evolve the way we talk about such issues, so that we say that phrase “faith and science” as little as possible. That…

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