Over the weekend, the Houston Chronicle published a commentary by Elaine Howard Ecklund that calls for Houston’s clergy and scientific community to engage in a “radical dialogue” that would put the city “at the vanguard of discussions about religion and science within communities of faith.”
Ecklund, who is a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute and is the director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at Rice University’s Institute for Urban Research, is well-qualified to discuss the topic.
Her new book, “Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think,” explores the topic via numerous interviews with scientists. She has written and blogged extensively on the subject. Earlier this month, she spoke at the Baker Institute and her lecture is available via archived webcast.
Ecklund says Houston is uniquely positioned to build bridges between science and faith because it is “home to some of the largest congregations in the country and also rising in science infrastructure, particularly in medicine and the energy industry.”
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