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Language of God
Sharing stories of people who have found a better way of understanding the harmony between science and Christian faith.
Episodes
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170. The Sacred Chain | The Challenge of Pain and Suffering
The science of evolution has caused friction for many Christians. And science does pose some challenges to the way people have been taught to think about their…
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169. The Sacred Chain | The Challenge of Time
The science of evolution has caused friction for many Christians. And science does pose some challenges to the way people have been taught to think about their…
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168. The Sacred Chain | The Challenge of the Bible
The science of evolution has caused friction for many Christians. And science does pose some challenges to the way people have been taught to think about their…
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167. Jonathan Haidt & Francis Collins | Technology, Mental Health, & the Role of Faith
Special guest-host Francis Collins discusses the children's mental health epidemic with Jonathan Haidt. Haidt has been studying the causes of the high rates of…
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166. Molly Worthen | Science and the Journey to Faith
Molly Worthen is a historian by training and wrote the book, Apostles of Reason, which explores the history of evangelicalism in America. When she wrote the…
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BONUS | Aminah Al-Attas Bradford on Feeding your Microbes
A bonus clip from an interview with Aminah Al-Attas Bradford for our series The Gift of Food.
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BONUS | Steven McMullen on Food and Thankfulness
A bonus clip from an interview with Steven McMullen for our series The Gift of Food.
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BONUS | Derrick Weston on Food not Lawns
A bonus clip from an interview with Derrick Weston for our series The Gift of Food.
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BONUS | Shauna Niequist on Gathering around Food
A bonus clip from an interview with Shauna Niequist for our series The Gift of Food.
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165. The Gift of Food | Economics, Justice, Fellowship (part 5)
In the last episode of the series we ask several related questions: How does the idea of food as a gift fit with the fact that food is also an economic…
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164. The Gift of Food | Eating Meat (part 4)
As creatures that must eat to live, human life is dependent on taking the lives of other creatures. In this episode, we explore ethics, science, and theology…
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163. The Gift of Food | The Science of Food (Part 3)
Taste is a sense that sometimes gets overshadowed by sight and sound, but it has played a crucial role in the development of our species. Some expert guides…
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162. The Gift of Food | God’s Love Made Delectable (Part 2)
The idea of food as a gift is one that comes to us frequently in scripture. In this episode we look to the Bible and see if we can better understand God’s…
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161. The Gift of Food | Sacred Morsels (Part 1)
Food is a great connector. It can connect us to the ground and the soil that produces food, to the plants and animals that turn into food, and to one another…
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160. David Brooks | To See and Be Seen
Talking about any hard topic—science and faith included—requires first recognizing the person on the other end of the conversation. That’s what David Brooks…
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159. Andrew Davison | Cosmic Incarnation
In the last couple of decades, we have solved the question of whether there are other earth-like planets in the universe by finding evidence of billions of…
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158. Emily Smith | Science & Neighborliness
Being a good neighbor in a wide and complicated world can be challenging. Emily Smith has attempted to share her scientific knowledge with the hopes that it…
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157. Jessica Moerman | No Act Too Small
Jessica Moerman’s scientific research has included the study of stalagmites in Bornean caves and digging up ancient lakes in Africa. Through this work, she and…
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156. Joanna Ng | Data, Truth, & AI
Joanna Ng has worked on many projects which have been turned into tools we use everyday. In the episode she talks about the journey to become a Master Inventor…
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155. Sy Montgomery | Soul Deep Sameness
Sy Montgomery has been writing about animals for over 30 years and has befriended many fascinating creatures in those years. Both turtles and octopuses…
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154. Janet Kellogg Ray | Science Denial and Christian Culture
Janet Kellogg Ray is a Christian science educator and author. In the episode, she shares her personal journey of reconciling her faith with the science of…
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153. BioLogos Book Club | Braiding Sweetgrass
In our second ever BioLogos book club, we bring you a discussion on the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Our expert guests include Carol…
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66. Agustín Fuentes | To Believe is Human
The question, what does it mean to be human, demands answers from many fields of study. Agustín Fuentes has looked to anthropology for answers to this question…
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152. Lee C. Camp | Opening the Door to Faith and Flourishing
As the host of his own podcast, No Small Endeavor, Lee C. Camp is well-practiced at conversations that explore what human flourishing could look like. In this…
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151. Joe Vukov | Navigating the Technological Divide
For some technology offers humanity a path into perfection. For others it is the means of our downfall. Somewhere in between there is Joe Vukov. In the…
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150. Trees | Living Symbols of Praise
Trees are often seen merely as backdrops or immovable scenery. When we start to learn about the physical realities of trees, their names and histories and the…
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149. Kate Boyd | Science and the Messy Middle
Kate Boyd has been learning to live out her faith in the messy middle in a culture that rewards picking a side. While her journey didn’t begin with a conflict…
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28. Alister McGrath | Journey of Science, Story of Faith
Alister McGrath is one of the iconic voices in the dialogue between science and faith. In this episode, Jim Stump talks to him about two of his more recent…
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148. New Genes | A Science Explainer with Dennis Venema
In a recent article in the journal Science, researchers described a process where new genes come about from parts of DNA that were thought to be useless and…
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147. Curtis Chang | Anxiety & the Doorway to Resurrection
Anxiety disorders are extremely common. Curtis Chang knows firsthand how anxiety can be extremely disruptive to the healthy and happy lives we all strive for…
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146. Sally Bingham | Churches Leading Change
Sally Bingham, the founder of Interfaith Power & Light (IPL), and the Canon of the Environment for the Diocese of California, shares the story of the inception…
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145. Dawn Wright | A Divine Abyss
In the summer of 2022 Dawn Wright became only the 27th person ever, the fifth woman, and the first Black person to descend into the deepest part of the ocean…
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144. Francis Collins & Deb Liu | Live from Silicon Valley
Deb Liu, the CEO of Ancestry, and Francis Collins, the previous director of the NIH and leader of the Human Genome project, delve into the fascinating world of…
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91. Jason Fileta | Faith, Justice, Climate
Jason Fileta didn’t start out as an environmental activist. His first passion was to alleviate the suffering of the poor and hungry. As he met and heard the…
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143. The Ocean Declares | Horseshoe Crabs, Hospitality & Creatureliness
When the wind is just right, on a small beach in Titusville, Florida, horseshoe crabs crawl out of the water and onto the beach to lay their eggs. Jim and…
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142. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap | Environmental Evangelism
When Kyle Meyaard-Schaap joins a climate march or calls a senator to talk about his concerns about climate change, he sees it as an act of evangelism. His new…
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141. Gayle Boss | Let Compassion Take Root
Over the season of lent we’ve been reading excerpts from Gayle Boss’ Book Wild Hope. In this episode we talk to Gayle about where the book came from and about…
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140. Brandon Vaidyanathan | Beauty in Science
As a sociologist, Brandon Vaidyanathan has been studying what scientists think about beauty. Some people might be surprised that scientists think much about…
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LENT | Reflections from Wild Hope: The Hawksbill Turtle
This Lent we’re reading reflections from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, by Gayle Boss. We’ll end with an interview with Gayle Boss in the last…
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139. BioLogos Book Club | Transcendent Kingdom
In the debut of a new podcast Book Club feature we take on the novel Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi about a young PhD candidate in neuroscience struggling…
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LENT | Reflections from Wild Hope: The Olm
This Lent we’re reading reflections from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, by Gayle Boss. We’ll end with an interview with Gayle Boss in the last…
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LENT | Reflections from Wild Hope: The North Atlantic Right Whale
This Lent we’re reading reflections from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, by Gayle Boss. We’ll end with an interview with Gayle Boss in the last…
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138. Sarah Augustine | Ever Present Every Moment
We have a lot to learn from Indigenous ways of thinking and knowledge about the world, particularly as it relates to the climate and environmental crisis and…
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LENT | Reflections from Wild Hope: The Indiana Bat
This Lent we’re reading reflections from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, by Gayle Boss. We’ll end with an interview with Gayle Boss in the last…
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137. ChatGPT | AI on Faith and Science
We welcome our first non-human guest to the podcast, the language model ChatGPT. The chatbot joins us to answer questions about science and faith. ChatGPT…
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LENT | Reflections from Wild Hope: The Red Knot
This Lent we’re reading reflections from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, by Gayle Boss. We’ll end with an interview with Gayle Boss in the last…
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136. Jimmy Lin | Scientific Doxology
Jimmy Lin calls himself a scientific doxologist. The science part of that title describes his work to find cures and treatments for cancer and rare diseases…
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BONUS | Welcome Back Jim
We welcome back host Jim Stump after having been away for several months. We hear about where he's been, what he's seen, and what will become of his wanderings…
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101. Jemar Tisby | Splendiferous Wondrous Differences
Every human bears the image of God and in God’s good future there will be a great diversity of people from all nations and tribes. But we don’t always live as…
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135. David Anderson | Comprehension Begins with Conversation
Each February, on the podcast, we make a point of increasing our comprehension about issues of race in America from within the BioLogos mission of exploring…
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134. Mónica Guzmán | The Gift of Curiosity
In a world of increasing division, Mónica Guzmán offers advice for approaching conversation with curiosity. When we attempt to understand those who we disagree…
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BONUS | God in the Noticing
A reflection on dragonflies, neurobiology, attention and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Support BioLogos Music in the episode is by Brian…
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133. A Wrinkle Occurred | The Nature of Science with Larry Molnar
Larry Molnar spent years with his astronomy students studying a contact binary star system. Their observations and data eventually led them to make the claim…
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132. Neuroscience, Mental Health & the Church
The church has had a complicated relationship with mental health. Research shows that 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness in a given year and yet 66% of…
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17. John Walton | More Than History
Biblical interpretation is all about asking questions—How did Ancient Israel understand the book of Genesis? How much context do we, as modern readers, need to…
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131. Katey Walter Anthony | Science, Faith & Thermokarst Lakes
Katey Walter Anthony has done much of her research deep in the arctic, studying the methane bubbles that are released in thawed permafrost lakes. What she has…
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58. Humility | How to Hold Knowledge
Both science and the Christian faith share a commitment to humility. Each also provides us with a perspective of the world which we believe to be true. How…
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130. Charles Foster | Inhabit the World
Charles Foster has spent a lot of time trying to deeply understand what it is like to be other than himself. It has led him to explore and emulate the life of…
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129. Walking with Andy Gosler | Wolfson Meadow
Andy Gosler is an ethno-ornithologist, studying the relationships between people and birds. We talk about what that means and the importance of knowing the…
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128. Lizzie Henderson | Different Kinds of I Don’t Know
Kids ask a lot of questions. When those questions come to hard topics about science and faith it can be tempting to dismiss them or brush them off or to think…