Science and Religion

Before his residency at MIT as a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow, Aaron Scott (not relation to Natalia Schwien Scott) hosted the podcasts Short Wave from NPR and Timber Wars from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Aaron also joined the recent Thinking...

By Stella Sandford / Edited by Russell Powell To understand what is at stake in contemporary debates over plant agency, it is helpful to situate them within the well-accepted narrative of recent biological theory. It goes like this: at the beginning of...

By Fabrizio Baldassari / Edited by Russell Powell Throughout the history of Western philosophy and science, scholars have relegated plants to the background of life on Earth. Two influential Aristotelian assumptions primarily drive this view: (1) that...

Krish, alias Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, presented excerpts from his recently published position paper on the meeting points of Medicine, Chaplaincy and Theology. The abstract of the publication, titled ‘You are Here’: Locating ‘Spirituality’ on the Map...

In 1990, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan had no idea that he would one day be a divinity school student, let alone that he would find his calling bridging the worlds of spirituality and psychiatry as a multifaith hospital chaplain. Back then, Ramakrishnan, now...