The Faith and Science Podcast

The readings for this week for the 1st Sunday after Christmas are: 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26, Psalm 148, Colossians 3:12-17, and Luke 2:41-52.  This week we look at how we need to keep growing in our faith and understanding.  One great way to do that is through citizen science where we are all able to grow and learn more about our creation.  By working together we can all grow and discover things and l...

The readings for this week for the 4th Sunday in Advent are: Micah 5:2-5a, Luke 1:46b-55 or Psalm 80:1-7, Hebrews 10:5-10, and Luke 1:39-45, (46-55).  This week we look at the history of communication.  We have consistently had to have trust in the messages that we have been getting from others from context clues.  Are we connected enough to God that we hear, understand and know that the messages...

The readings for this week for the 2nd Sunday in Advent are: Zephaniah 3:14-20, Isaiah 12:2-6, Philippians 4:4-7, and Luke 3:7-18.  This week we look at the Hubble tension over the Hubble Constant.  We explore how scientists have continued to work to refine their ways of gathering data to get a more accurate and precise measurement of this constant.  This has come from: continuous questioning, bei...

The readings for this week for the 2nd Sunday in Advent are: Baruch 5:1-9, or Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 1:68-79, Philippians 1:3-1, and Luke 3:1-6.  This week we look how there are multiple animals that go through a process of preparing for the upcoming season.  In this process, or eating food, it also leaves behind something that will last generations long after us.  Are we willing to do the same and s...

The readings for this week for the 1st Sunday in Advent are: Jeremiah 33:14-16, Psalm 25:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13, and Luke 21:25-36.  This week we look to nature to see how nature works to prepare for major changes and having to trust God for parts of it.  This can be seen in how trees sap works or in how birds prepare to migrate. Are we willing to do the same?  Thanks again for taking the ti...

The readings for this week for Reign of Christ or Christ the King Sunday are: 2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132:1-12, (13-18), or Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 and Psalm 93, with Revelation 1:4b-8, and John 18:33-37.  This week we look at how we often can not see the whole picture of what is going on.  God calls us to take a moment and breathe and reflect on life and yet we struggle to let ourselves do that. ...

The readings for this week for 26th Sunday after Pentecost are: 1 Samuel 1:4-20, with 1 Samuel 2:1-10, or Daniel 12:1-3, with Psalm 16, and Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25, and Mark 13:1-8.  This week we look at Bredt's Rule in Organic Chemistry and how this is a good thing in science even when it is difficult.  Are we allowing ourselves to do the same thing in our faith?  Without acknowledging t...

The readings for this week for 25th Sunday after Pentecost are: Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17, and Psalm 127, or 1 Kings 17:8-16 and Psalm 146, with Hebrews 9:24-28, and Mark 12:38-44.  This week we look at Marie Curie and what dedication she had to the sciences and helping all of us better understand the world around us.  Are we as people willing to do the same thing?  Are we willing to be that willing to...

The readings for this week for the All Saints Day are Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9, with Psalm 24, Revelation 21:1-6a, and John 11:32-44  The readings for this week for 24th Sunday after Pentecost are: Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 46, Romans 3:19-28, and John 8:31-36.  This week we discuss how with where we have gotten with gene editing and expression that we are now confronted with the qu...

The readings for this week for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost are Job 42:1-6, 10-17 and Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22), or Jeremiah 31:7-9 and Psalm 126, with Hebrews 7:23-28, and Mark 10:46-52.  The readings for this week for Reformation Sunday are: Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 46, Romans 3:19-28, and John 8:31-36.  This week we discuss how important it is for us to overlook different parts of God's creation...

The readings for this week are Job 38:1-7, (34-41) and Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c, or Isaiah 53:4-12 and Psalm 91:9-16, with Hebrews 5:1-10 and, Mark 10:35-45.  This week we discuss how asking the right question, and making the right observations is very important in science and in faith.  Without these, it is quite easy for us to get misled and have been led astray.  With asking the right questions a...

The readings for this week are Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15, or Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17, with Hebrews 4:12-16, and Mark 10:17-31.  This week we discuss how our bodies have different things that wear out and cause aging.  In this, there are ways that we can do preventative care, but there is also the acceptance of the gifts that we have been given and embracing that.  Also reali...

The readings for this week are Job 1:1, 2:1-10 and Psalm 26, or Genesis 2:18-24 and Psalm 8, with Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12, and Mark 10:2-16.  This week we discuss how important different scientific assistants have made a significant impact on many of these discoveries for the people they helped.  Without these assistants, many of these discoveries wouldn't not have happened. We all can work on reali...

The readings for this week are Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 and Psalm 124, or Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Psalm 19:7-14, with James 5:13-20, and Mark 9:38-50.  This week we see how pride and fear often lead to the suppression of new ideas or persecution of individuals. Yet, when Jesus is given an opportunity to be prideful, he chooses to be humble instead and make sure his pride does not get i...

The readings for this week are Proverbs 31:10-31 and Psalm 1, or Wisdom of Solomon 1:16-2:1, 12-22 or Jeremiah 11:18-20 and Psalm 54, James 3:13 – 4:3, 7-8a, and Mark 9:30-37.  This week we discuss the different types of symbiotic relationships.  Often the one that gets looked over is Commensalism, because it seems so one sided which it is.  We also must remember that much of our relationship with...

Dear Listeners,   We have made it 350 straight weeks of talking about Faith and Science!  I first want to thank everyone who has tagged along on this crazy journey.  I hope you enjoy this episode as we thank you and talk about what some of the future holds for the podcast.  Hope you enjoy it as we continue talking about Faith and Science each week.   Thank you so much, Tyler Bublitz Music used in...

The readings for this week are Proverbs 1:20-33 with Psalm 19, or Isaiah 50:4-9a, with Psalm 19, or Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1, or Psalm 116:1-9, with James 3:1-12, and Mark 8:27-38.  This week we discuss how we try putting species of organisms into boxes and try to fill out the Phylogenetic Tree.  Unfortunately, it is not that easy.  There are a lot of things that are being worked on now to try...

The readings for this week are Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23, with Psalm 125, or Isaiah 35:4-7a with Psalm 146, James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17, and Mark 7:24-37.  This week we look at how healing can take the form of many different things.  Sometimes it can come in the form of trying to restore wrongs that were done years ago like in the case of the Northern Bald Ibis.  This will then mean that we hav...

The readings for this week are Song of Solomon 2:8-13 and Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9, or Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9  and Psalm 15, with James 1:17-27, and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.  This week we look at how "technological doping" continues to have a grey area making room for us to contemplate the meaning of sport and what the Olympics is really about.  There are many things that as we push forward with differe...

The readings for this week are 1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43 and Psalm 84, or Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 Psalm 34:15-22, with Ephesians 6:10-20, and John 6:56-69.  This week we look at Leonardo Da Vinci.  This great Renaissance man showed us the power of curiosity without getting pigeonholed into our profession.  We should continue to be curious even when it seems as if what we are working on isn...

The readings for this week are 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14, with Psalm 111, or Proverbs 9:1-6, with Psalm 34:9-14, Ephesians 5:15-20, and John 6:51-58.  This week we look at the difficult subject of wisdom.  It is not a quick and easy subject to just grasp but it takes time to acquire and understand.  Much of our world is built on this concept of wisdom; building upon itself and being able to take the...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 and Psalm 130, or 1 Kings 19:4-8 and Psalm 34:1-8, with Ephesians 4:25-5:2, and John 6:35, 41-51.  This week we look at relationships and how important they are while we are surrounded by them.  We have Endosymbiotic relationships in us and all around us.  We have recently discovered a new Endosymbiotic relationship called a nitroplast.  At...

 The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a, with Psalm 51:1-12, or Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15, with Psalm 78:23-29, Ephesians 4:1-16, and John 6:24-35.  This week we look at "dark oxygen" and how this is causing us to reconsider how life started and whether or not we should mine the area.  This is where patience could be key for us to understand how this marine ecosystem affects our world bu...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 11:1-15, and Psalm 14, or 2 Kings 4:42-44, and Psalm 145:10-18, with Ephesians 3:14-21, and John 6:1-21.  This week we look at how salmon have made their runs upstream to their breeding grounds.  Over time, humans have intervened, thinking we had all the answers.  We have found out over time, how little we actually knew of how the ecosystem was impacted by s...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 7:1-14a and Psalm 89:20-37, or Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Psalm 23, with Ephesians 2:11-22, and Mark 6:30-34, 53-56.  This week we look at how it is easy for us to miss things that are outside of our daily human lives.  In doing that, we miss a lot of what God had created and is willing to teach us if we spend the time to notice and care about it.  God did not only...