Scientists in Congregations: Let's Start the Conversation

The Science in Congregations initiative is a grant program that is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and calls for a sustained, creative collaboration between practitioners in the fields of science (scientists or science educators) and theology / faith practice (pastors) who are already engaged with one another through shared participation in the life of a congregation.

The purpose of this initiative:
  • To identify existing resources of congregations and to catalyze conditions for a sustained, rich, generative engagement between science and faith.
  • To provide pastors with the means to call scientists into a sustained collaboration that would enrich a scientist’s engagement with theology and a theologian’s engagement with science, and their shared participation in congregational life and leadership.
  • To develop a range of locally grown models of how congregations can draw deeply from the well of their own congregational life to become communities where the life of science and the life of faith are experienced as spiritually enriching and intellectually stimulating, and to find ways of encouraging a multiplying number of other congregations to also implement, and improve on these models.
  • To mediate into congregational life many of the existing resources, as well as those now under development, that are intended to cultivate a generative encounter between science and faith in the life of congregations.
  • To help overcome the wider social issues which grow out of the troubling ways in which religious communities relate to science.

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