Writing Page

Writing

Goals

My goal is to share the beauty and wonder of God's creation as revealed through science to as broad an audience as possible.

Responding

Recognizing all of God's creation as a gift calls us to respond accordingly. For to those who have been given much, much will be expected.

Articles and Essays for Magazines

The Comfort of Our InsignificancePerspectives Journal. January 2019

Faith and Climate ChangeThe Banner. April 2018

You are PluralChristianity Today. November 2016

Faith and Climate ChangeThe Banner. May 2016

Wrestling with MiraclesPerspectives Journal. May 2016

Born to Be WildThe Behemoth. December 2015

Articles and Essays for Edited Blogs

Can or Should? Why Scientists Need the Liberal ArtsChrist Animated Learning Blog. May 2024

Can We Please Stop Calling It the Powerhouse of the Cell?Christ Animated Learning Blog. February 2024

Why do we keep saying, "Yes"Christ Animated Learning Blog. September 2023

Interdisciplinary Research as a Sharing of Gifts, Part 1Christ Animated Learning Blog. July 2023

I don't want my students to be well-roundedChrist Animated Learning Blog. March 2023

Cancer "Treatments"Christ Animated Learning Blog. November 2022

In Defense of Committee MeetingsChrist Animated Learning Blog. September 2022

The Importance of How We DescribeChrist Animated Learning Blog. August 2022

The Redemption of All GenesChrist Animated Learning Blog. May 2022

No One Knows How Hard I WorkedChrist Animated Learning Blog. April 2022

Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human FlourishingReformed Journal. April 2022

The Gifts of Advising DayChrist Animated Learning Blog. November 2021

Those Data Points Are PeopleChrist Animated Learning Blog. September 2021

Kind or DegreeChrist Animated Learning Blog. May 2021

Attention and LoveChrist Animated Learning Blog. April 2021

Choosing How to Explain the Choice a Virus MakesChrist Animated Learning Blog. April 2021

Counting the SavedChrist Animated Learning Blog. March 2021

What is Won and Lost in a Virtual Lab?Christ Animated Learning Blog. January 2021

Determining what makes me the way I amSapientia. May 2020

The Gift of Gene TherapyThe Reformed Journal. April 2019

Human SpecialnessBioLogos. April 2019

DeterminismThe Reformed Journal. March 2019

Prophecy and ClimateThe Reformed Journal. January 2019

Ecclesiastes and ScienceThe Reformed Journal. October 2018

With Gentleness and ReverenceBioLogos. August 2017

Weird Science and Christian WisdomThink Christian. May 2017

All Rivers, Great and SmallThink Christian. March 2017

Rethinking NeanderthalsThink Christian. February 2017

Our Bodies as Microbial CommunitiesTheological Miscellany. November 2016

Antibiotic Resistance: Have We Misused God's Good GiftThink Christian. October 2016

After Paris, It's Time for Christians to take on Climate ChangeThe Network. February 2016

Sin, evil, and the Zika virusThink Christian. February 2016

It’s time for a Christian consensus on climate changeThink Christian. December 2015

Embracing the mystery of Biblical miraclesThink Christian. November 2015

Has a line been crossed in regard to human DNA?Think Christian. May 2015

Mice in the image of God?Think Christian. March 2015

Bringing pathos into the vaccination conversationThink Christian. February 2015

Having “the talk” with college biology studentsThink Christian. October 2014

Thunderstorm at a bus stop Catapult Magazine. April 2014

Epigenetics: sign of the Fall or reason for hope?Think Christian. March 2014

Cursed children and redemptive action in Ethiopia’s Omo valleyThink Christian. January 2014

Why I signed that evangelical scientists’ letter on climate changeThink Christian. July 2013

Journals and Pages

Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith