Dear ISSR Member, I hope you and yours are keeping well, and that wherever you are COVID is coming back under control. With vaccine rollout speeding up in many places (I am getting my first next week!), my hope is that this third wave will come under control soon so that we may begin rebuilding our lives and communities better and more resilient than they were before. Please enjoy reading May’s newsletter, and please remember that ISSR’s newsletter is supplied primarily by you---our Members. If there is anything you come across that would be of benefit to our international community, please share it with me at admin@issr.org.uk. Our newsletter is a great tool for sharing important work on science and religion from different perspectives and different traditions. Also, our

Dear ISSR Member, I hope you had a lovely weekend (and for some a long weekend) and are staying safe. Here in Toronto, COVID numbers have become increasingly worrying, and with warmer weather and longer days ahead I can only hope that we will see safe and cautious practices take place. Wherever you are reading this, I do hope that you and yours are staying well in both body and mind. Here is this month’s newsletter: John C Polkinghorne The recent death of John Polkinghorne has certainly been a loss for the science and religion community. Fraser Watts offers a fond, brief look at his life and his impact. You can read it here: https://www.issr.org.uk/blog/john-polkinghorne-1930-2021/   David Wilkinson has written a piece on John for Church Times, which you can read

Dear ISSR Member,   I do hope you and yours are keeping well, and I apologize for getting this to you a bit later than normal. I completed a move over the weekend but could not get my internet activated until today. Since COVID began the rental prices in Toronto have fallen (yet strangely property sales are continuing to set records) quite drastically, so I took the opportunity for my partner and me to secure a good home for us. Now that I am settled, I am happy to bring you this month’s newsletter.   This month’s newsletter is quite short, as many of us are quite busy right now. ISSR’s newsletter is supplied primarily by you, our members. If there is anything you come across that would

Please see the below message:   "Greetings from EFITC!!   Climate change is a pertinent discourse across the world today. Worries over global CO2 emissions, uncertain weather changes, increasing temperatures, etc. are concerns that all of us need to be aware of and work towards in addressing them. With this in mind, the EFI Theological Commission is excited to announce a Special Webinar on "CREATION CARE - An Evangelical Response".   Date and Time: Mar 17, 2021 04:00 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi Topic: CREATION CARE – An Evangelical Response Please Register: https://bit.ly/3bRBlIW   Dr. Ken Gnanakan and Dr. Samuel Richmond Saxena have graciously agreed to speak to us. Their presentations will be followed by a Q&A session.   Dr. Ken Gnanakan is an Indian educator, environmentalist

Dear ISSR Member,   I trust you have been keeping well and have had an excellent first month of 2021. While numbers here in Toronto continue to inspire worry, and our recent bout of vaccination delays add to that worry, it has nonetheless been a relatively lively beginning to the year. There is much to look forward to this year, and I hope that wherever you are there is positive news too.   This month is quite short but includes excellent content. I will post my email at the end of the newsletter if you have a question.   ISSR Matters: The 2021 Boyle Lecture will be this Wednesday, 03 February 2021, at 6pm GMT/1pm EST. As you know, this year’s Lecture will be given by Professor Tom McLeish,

Join The Rev. Dr. Christopher C. Knight and SVS Press Foundations Series Editor Dr. Peter C. Bouteneff online Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. EST for the virtual book launch of Science and the Christian Faith: A Guide for the Perplexed. They’ll host a discussion about the book and its implications for Christians.   ISSR Fellow Sarah Lane Ritchie writes of the book, "Christopher Knight is the world’s leading scholar on the relationship between contemporary science and Orthodox theology. A must-have for Orthodox, this book also provides key new perspectives for all Christians wrestling with scientific challenges to faith. Knight brilliantly engages both contemporary science and core Orthodox commitments to articulate insightful ways forward for those perplexed within an age of science."   To register for this event, please go to the

January 2021 Newsletter   Dear ISSR Member,   I do hope you are staying well. While hope is on the horizon, the present situation for many of us continues to grow increasingly worrisome. Here in Toronto, my partner and I spent a very quiet holiday (my first Christmas not seeing family) but made the best of it like so many others. Numbers seem to be rising sharply, a trend I hope we can move away from quickly. On a more positive note, however, and one that is hard to believe, today I bring to you the first ISSR newsletter of 2021! Take a look:   ISSR Matters: Fraser Watts, our Executive Secretary, on behalf of ISSR, would like you to read the following New Year’s message:   “Dear

Dear all,   I do hope you and yours are staying well. We are now entering the last month of 2020 and what a year it has been! I enjoy hearing from many of you after the newsletter is sent out on how you are doing and what news pieces you would like me to share with the community. I would very much enjoy hearing your thoughts and reflections on the year, and what you are looking forward to in the upcoming one.   Below you will find our latest items for this month’s newsletter:   ISSR Related This is a final reminder that ISSR Fellowship nominations are due on 15 We are especially encouraging nominations this year from non-Christian traditions. Nominations for Fellowship of ISSR may only

November 2020 Newsletter   Dear ISSR Member,   I do hope you and yours are keeping well. Here in Toronto, our province (Ontario) today posted another 948 COVID-19 cases. What is more, we had our first snowfall, and with Daylight Savings now ended, it was dark at 17:06! It all feels a little bit dreary, especially with an election that so many of us are paying attention to happening this week. Wherever you are reading this, I hope this month’s round-up of science and religion news brings some interesting and positive information to your day.   There is quite a bit this month, so I will get right into it:   ISSR Matters ISSR announced last month that Fellowship nominations are now open. Nominations for Fellowship of ISSR