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The Brain on Faith: Part 2 of a Four-Part Interview
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Kristina Robb-Dover
If you’re just tuning in, we’re continuing our conversation with Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Saskia de Vries, as part of a four-part exploration of the intersection between neuroscience and theology. Are human beings hard-wired to believe in something, God, etc? This is a great question. Daniel Dennett, among others, has argued for this idea. He wouldn’t…
A Mother’s Day Tribute
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Kristina Robb-Dover
You may have heard me tell this story once before here, in the context of “Body Dysmorphic Disorder” (http://blog.beliefnet.com/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners/2011/11/body-dysmorphic-disorder.html), but with Mother’s Day tomorrow, it’s worth a retell as a tribute to my mother and the many of you engaging in some of God’s best work. When I was a kid it was an inevitability that…
Nature and Grace
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Kristina Robb-Dover
If you read yesterday’s sermon, you may have caught some refrains on this theme. The picture I mentioned of the leopard snuggling with a baby antelope might almost pass as a Hallmark card, were it not for the fact that within the hour the antelope will become the leopard’s grisly lunch. But, that picture speaks to…
“Earth Day” a.k.a. “Easter”?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
We were driving home from school during Holy Week last year when I put the question before my then four-year-old son. “Do you know what happens this weekend?,” I had asked him- and I’d be lying to say I had no expectation about how he would respond. Surely, I had figured, all those bedtime Bible…
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