Language of God

Language of God episodes:

• 04.11.2024

  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 faith, but those challenges don’t have to lead to a decision to reject...

  
• 04.04.2024

  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 faith, but those challenges don’t have to lead to a decision to reject...

  
• 03.28.2024

  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 faith, but those challenges don’t have to lead to a decision to reject...

  
• 03.21.2024

  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 depression and suicide in children for many years and has found that social media is at...

  
• 03.07.2024

  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 book about 10 years ago, she approached the topic as an outsider, identifying as...

  
• 02.29.2024

  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.

  
• 02.29.2024

  BONUS | Steven McMullen on Food and Thankfulness

  A bonus clip from an interview with Steven McMullen for our series The Gift of Food.

  
• 02.22.2024

  BONUS | Shauna Niequist on Gathering around Food

  A bonus clip from an interview with Shauna Niequist for our series The Gift of Food.

  
• 02.22.2024

  BONUS | Derrick Weston on Food not Lawns

  A bonus clip from an interview with Derrick Weston for our series The Gift of Food.

  
• 02.15.2024

  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 commodity? How does food play into issues of justice?...

  
• 02.08.2024

  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 behind taking the lives of animals who become our food. In the process,...

  
• 02.01.2024

  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 help us understand what is happening in our brains when we eat....

  
• 01.25.2024

  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 intended relationship to food. Beginning with the Old...

  
• 01.18.2024

  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. It also has the possibility of connecting us better...

  
• 12.07.2023

  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 set out to do and is the result of his most recent book, How to Know a...

  
• 11.30.2023

  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 them. But while we don’t know whether there could be life on those...

  
• 11.16.2023

  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 can contribute to neighborliness and even help to identify those who are most...

  
• 11.09.2023

  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 other paleoclimatologists—those who study the climate of the past—have started to piece together the puzzle...

  
• 11.02.2023

  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 and some of the highlights of her career and then discusses...

  
• 10.19.2023

  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, subjects of two of her books, are ancient relatives of ours, separated from humans by millions...

  
• 10.12.2023

  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 evolution and discusses the challenges faced by Christians in accepting scientific evidence. She explores...

  
• 10.05.2023

  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 Bremer-Bennett, the Executive Director of World Renew; Rick Lindroth, a retired professor of ecology;...

  
• 09.21.2023

  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 but the answers he has found speak to something that is bigger than...

  
• 09.14.2023

  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 conversation, he looks back to his own experiences in which doors were opened...

  
• 08.31.2023

  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 episode, Joe helps to explain the pitfalls of both extremes—on one side, the...

  
• 08.24.2023

  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 ways they interact with the world around them, we start to wonder if...

  
• 08.17.2023

  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 between science and religion, her story explores the complexities of...

  
• 07.27.2023

  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 books: A Theory of Everything (that Matters) and Narrative Apologetics. The...

  
• 07.06.2023

  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 led to bigger brains in humans. Jim and Colin, along with Dennis...

  
• 06.08.2023

  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. In this episode Curtis, who is a theologian, host of the Good Faith podcast and...

  
• 06.01.2023

  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 of IPL and discusses the influential role that churches and faith communities can...

  
• 05.18.2023

  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, a place called Challenger Deep. As a scientist, Dawn has...

  
• 05.11.2023

  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 genetic science, exploring its implications on our understanding of human identity, ancestry...

  
• 05.04.2023

  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 stories from those struggling with poverty and hunger he often asked them...

  
• 04.27.2023

  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 Colin joined up with two marine biologists—Bob Sluka who works...

  
• 04.20.2023

  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 book Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to...

  
• 04.06.2023

  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 how the stories of wild and imperiled creatures can help...

  
• 03.30.2023

  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 beauty at all, but for many scientists, beauty is an important reason for why they do the...

  
• 03.27.2023

  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 week of Lent.  The reflections from Wild Hope are grouped into five different...

  
• 03.23.2023

  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 with questions about mental health, the problem of evil, and how to...

  
• 03.20.2023

  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 week of Lent.  The reflections from Wild Hope are grouped into five different...

  
• 03.13.2023

  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 week of Lent.  The reflections from Wild Hope are grouped into five different...

  
• 03.09.2023

  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 the place of humans in creation. And in learning about Indigenous knowledge we...

  
• 03.06.2023

  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 week of Lent.  The reflections from Wild Hope are grouped into five different...

  
• 03.02.2023

  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 draws on extensive digital information to answer the same kinds of questions we have been...

  
• 02.27.2023

  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 week of Lent.  The reflections from Wild Hope are grouped into five different...

  
• 02.23.2023

  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 and he talks about the real progress that has been made to that end....

  
• 02.16.2023

  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 and wonderings.

  
• 02.09.2023

  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 if that were the case. Jemar Tisby joins us...

  
• 02.02.2023

  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 God’s word and God’s world. As Dr. David Anderson points out, conversation is an...