Jim Stump

Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies

Science & Faith

“Too few of today’s youth have had productive ways of engaging science and religion modeled for them because youth workers largely feel ill-equipped to do that. Sound familiar? Then this book is for you. Root’s oh-so-real fictional encounters display the tensions youth face between the messages they imbibe about science from culture and the lives of faith they acquire from their families and youth groups. He unpacks these tensions and shows a way forward without avoiding the hard questions or delegitimizing accepted science or orthodox Christian faith. The dialogue between science and religion is an important one for our culture in general—all the more for youth. Please see that the youth ministers in your community get a copy of this book.”

Mere Science and Christian Faith

Science & Faith

“In this book you’ll find the usual suspects in books on science and religion: age of the earth, creation ex nihilo, Adam and Eve, and so on. But here you’ll also find thoughtful discussions of technology, climate change, and sexuality. These latter are the topics emerging adults are more interested in, and Cootsona has been listening to them. His book is no ivory tower treatment of ideas in the abstract, but it is filled with on-the-ground insights gleaned from his extensive interaction with eighteen- to thirty-year-olds. All of us engaged in the science and religion dialogue would do well to read this book to see where our field is going. Others who have been turned off by acrimonious science and faith arguments will find a much more attractive way into the topics—and perhaps into faith itself. See that a copy of this book gets into their hands!”

Science and Christianity

Science & Faith

“Reddish engages Scripture faithfully and science with professional integrity. . . . Reddish shows not just that science and faith can get along, but that when each is understood properly, they enrich each other.”

The God of Monkey Science

Science & Faith

“In this accessible and engaging book, Janet Kellogg Ray critiques evangelicalism but does so from the inside without rancor. Christian voices like Ray’s give me hope that evangelical engagement with science will not entirely devolve into monkey science.”