The Faith and Science Podcast

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...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 and Psalm 24, or Amos 7:7-15 and Psalm 85:8-13, with Ephesians 1:3-14, and Mark 6:14-29.  This week we look at how paleontology got off to a weird start as a scientific field due to Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope and how their jealousy for each other impacted the whole field.  It is easy to see how we as humans all do this and ho...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 and Psalm 48, or Ezekiel 2:1-5 and Psalm 123,  with 2 Corinthians 12:2-10, and Mark 6:1-13.  This week we look at the reintroduction of wolves into Colorado.  There is a lot of hope on how it could be beneficial to the environment long term, there are some current challenges of having them reenter the former lands; free range cattle.  Figuring ou...

The readings for this week are 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 with Psalm 130, or Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24 or Lamentations 3:22-33 with Psalm 30, 2 Corinthians 8:7-15, and Mark 5:21-43.  This week we look at what happens to an environment when it is given the opportunity to heal.  The process of renewing an area takes a lot of time and observation/awareness, but it is able to give in abundance.  Are...

After advertising and talking about it for months, I was able to attend Gustavus' Academy of Faith, Science, and Ethics for 2024 again this year.  I had an amazing time interacting with this amazing group of young adults and hearing how they see Faith and Science working together and also the questions they have.  It was also fun to listen and think about sleep and how it affects us.  I believe li...

The readings for this week are 1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49 and Psalm 9:9-20 or 1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 18:10-16 and Psalm 133, or Job 38:1-11 and Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32, with 2 Corinthians 6:1-13, and Mark 4:35-41.  This week we look at wolf hunting practices.  From this we are able to learn from the animals they hunt on what it means to be resilient and also learn to work together with the "h...

 The readings for this week are 1 Samuel 15:34 - 16:13, with Psalm 20, or Ezekiel 17:22-24 with Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15, 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17, and Mark 4:26-34.  This week we look at decomposers and their vital needs within our world.  The role they have of adding nutrition to the soil to help maintain life that we need but these amazing organisms often get overlooked.  We would be com...

The readings for this week are 1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15) and Psalm 138, or  Genesis 3:8-15 and Psalm 130,  2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1, and Mark 3:20-35.  This week we discuss how humans struggle to think long term.  We are here and now people and at times this leads to us falling into traps we otherwise wouldn't.  We see that we have a God who challenges us to go beyond our short ter...

The readings for this week are 1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) with Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, or Deuteronomy 5:12-15 with Psalm 81:1-10, 2 Corinthians 4:5-12, and Mark 2:23-3:6.  This week we discuss how Jesus caused the Pharisees to challenge their understanding of Sabbath.  We in the same way need to be able to challenge our understanding of what is normal.  We are seeing microplastics affecting the earth a...

The readings for this week are Isaiah 6:1-8, Psalm 29, Romans 8:12-17, and John 3:1-17.  This week we discuss like our triune God we all have many sides of us and have to be okay with showing them some.  We focus in on Roald Dahl who is most known for his writing of books but yet has made significant contributions to science that we all are still benefiting from. We have to make sure that we don't...

The readings for this week are Acts 2:1-21, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Psalm 104:24-34, 35b, Romans 8:22-27, and John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15.  This week we discuss how ecological succession seems to be quite similar to the coming of the Holy Spirit.  In order for the Advocate to come, there had to be some painful events that concluded with Jesus' assentation and leaving us.  In order for us to get the full gift...

The readings for this week are either Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47 or Psalm 93, Ephesians 1:15-23, and Luke 24:44-53 for the Ascension of Our Lord or Acts 1:15-17, 21-26, Psalm 1, 1 John 5:9-13, and John 17:6-19 for the 7th Sunday of Easter.  This week we discuss Iterative evolution, which is when a species redevelops a trait independently at different points of time, and how that needs to be looked at w...

The readings for this week are Acts 10:44-48, Psalm 98, 1 John 5:1-6, and John 15:9-17.  This week we discuss mutualistic relationships, relationships where both benefit, are quite common in nature and are essential to life here on earth.  When we are called to love one another could that also mean things that are beyond the human experience?  Personally, I think it is a vital part to our connecti...

The readings for this week are Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:25-31, 1 John 4:7-21, and John 15:1-8.  This week we discuss the reason that we prune plants.  When Jesus is comparing ourselves to pruning we must first understand the reason for it, which there are multiple, and then figure out where in ourselves do we need to keep pruning.  The growth that God is wanting means that we need to be comfortable...

The readings for this week are Acts 4:5-12, Psalm 23, 1 John 3:16-24, and John 10:11-18.  This week we look at how we could expand our understanding of hearing and understanding the voice of God.  It is quite easy for us to ignore the nonhuman part of God's creation and think that God doesn't speak there, but most of us would also say it's something we appreciate and use to reset and isn't that a...