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CTNS 35th Anniversary Speeches

Video - Ted Peters, Introduction
Video - Michael Dodds
Video - Susan Hoganson
Video - Dean Arthur Holder
Video - Braden Molhoek
Video - President Riess Potterveld
Video - Bob and Charlotte Russell


2021-22 Russell Family Fellowship in Religion and Science with Kirk Wegter-McNelly, "Engaging Hypotheticals: Groundwork for the Study of Theology in a Secular Academic Context"

Video - Our Strigilated Universe: The Cosmogonic Significance of Primordial Gravitation Radiation | Public Forum
Video - Engaging Hypotheticals: Groundwork for the Study of Theology in a Secular Academic Context | Fellowship Lecture

2019-20 Russell Family Fellowship in Religion and Science with Adam Pryor, "What if we are not alone? Considering the Significance of Non-Intelligent Alien Life"

Video - How Science and Religion Dialog Intersects with Interfaith Advocacy | Public Forum
Video - What if we are not alone? Considering the Significance of Non-Intelligent Alien Life | Fellowship Lecture
Video - What if we are not alone? | Response #1 Hyung-Joo Lee
Video - What if we are not alone? | Response #2 Jamie Fowler
Video - What if we are not alone? | Response #3 Braden Molhoek
Video - What if we are not alone? | Response #4 Ted Peters
Video - What if we are not alone? | Q&A
Video - Russell Family Research Conference 2019-20 | Charles H. Townes Fellowship Winner Myoung-ho Sin

2018-19 Russell Family Research Fellowship with Joshua Moritz “What Has Science to do with Youth Ministry?: Why Theological Engagement with the Natural Sciences is Vital for Effective and Impactful Youth Ministry"

Video - Joshua Moritz Fellowship Lecture
Video - Fellow's Public Forum
Video - Response by Rachelle Hayes
Video - Response by Greg Cootsona
Video - Response by Brian Patrick Green
Video - Panel Discussion/Q&A

2017-18 Russell Family Research Fellowship with Ron Cole-Turner: “New Perspectives from Science on Human Origins"

Video - New Perspectives from Science on Human Origins, Fellowship Lecture, Ron Cole-Turner
Video - Response by Jamie Fowler
Video - Response by Jay Johnson
Video - Response by Braden Molhoek
Video - Response by Joshua Moritz
Video - Panel Discussion

2016-17 Russell Family Research Fellowship with Hava Tirosh-Samuleson: “In Pursuit of Perfection: The Misguided Transhumanist Vision”

Video - In Pursuit of Perfection | Fellowship Lecture
Video - Response by Arvin Gouw
Video - Response by Brian Green
Video - Response by Stanley Klein
Video - Response by Ted Peters
Video - Panel Discussion
Video - 2017 Charles Townes Graduate Student Fellowship Announcement

2015-16 Russell Family Fellowship with Terrence Deacon and Tyrone Cashman: “Science, Naturalized Teleology and a Metaphysics of Incompleteness”

Video - Science, Naturalized Teleology and a Metaphysics of Incompleteness ...
Video - Response by Brian Green
Video - Response by Joshua Moritz
Video - Response by Adam Pryor
Video - Response by Mariusz Tabaczek
Video - Q&A Part 1
Video - Q&A Part 2
Video - Final Q&A

2014-15 J. K. Russell Conference with Noreen Herzfeld: “More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism”

Video - Public Forum Lecture, Noreen Herzfeld, “Who is My Neighbor—A Personal Journey”
Video - Introduction to Fellowship Conference by Robert John Russell
Video - More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism, Fellowship Lecture, Noreen Herzfeld
Video - Response by Brian Patrick Green, "A Response to Noreen Herzfeld: Metaphysics, Death, and the Future"
Video - Response by Braden Molhoek, "Sensuality and Altering Anthropology in Artificial Intelligence...
Video - Fellow's Response to the Responses
Video - Announcement of the 2015 Charles Townes Graduate Student Fellowship

2012-13 J. K. Russell Conference with Niels Gregersen: “God, Information and the Sciences of Complexity”

Video - God, Information and the Sciences of Complexity, Fellowship Lecture, Niels Gregersen
Video - Response by Ron Cole-Turner
Video - Response by Joshua Moritz
Video - Response by Ted Peters
Video - Response by Dan Peterson

2006-07 J.K. Russell Conference with Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett: “Assessing The Case(s) for Theistic Evolution”

Video - Assessing the Case(s) for Theistic Evolution, Fellowship Lecture
Video - General Discussion of the Fellowship Lecture
Video - Response by Ian Barbour
Video - Peters and Hewlett respond to Ian Barbour’s Response, and General Q&A
Video - Response by Alex Garcia-Rivera
Video - Response to Garcia-Rivera and Panel Discussion
Video - Response by Phil Hefner
Video - Response by Antje Jackelén
Video - Q&A
Video - Final Group Discussion & Conclusion


Scientific and Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature (SATURN) Conference October 11, 2014

Video - Robert Russell, "Quantum Mechanics and Non-interventionist Objective Divine Action
Video - Gerald Cleaver, "Multiverse"
Video - Alicia Juarrero, "What does the closure of context-sensitive constraints mean for determinism, autonomy...
Video - Robert Ulanowicz, "The Universal Laws of Physics: Inflated Ontologies?"
Video - First Session General Q&A
Video - Joshua Moritz, "Contingency, Convergence, Constraints, and the Challenge from Theodicy...
Video - Rope Kojonen, "Recent Critiques of Theophysical Incompatibilism"
Video - Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, "Necessity, Chance and Indeterminism: A Theological Account of...
Video - Ted Peters, "Contingency and Freedom in Brains and Selves"
Video - Second Session General Q&A and Conclusion


Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Evolution, Creation and Semiotics"

Link - Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Evolution, Creation and Semiotics"
Link - Warren Brown and Michael Spezio,"Virtue Ethics, Neuroscience, and the Transcendent: New Insights from the Interaction between Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy and Theology"


CTNS Public Forums

Video - Virtuous AI?: Perspectives on Prudential Judgement in Medicine from the US and Uganda | Cyrus Olsen
Video - Phil Clayton: Quantum Entanglement, Double Agency, and Divine Action
Video - Transhumanism as Contemporary Idolatry: A Judaic Critique Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Video - Junghyung Kim, "The Doctrine of Atonement and Extraterrestrial Life"
Video - James Stump, "The Spiritual Journey of Homo Sapiens"
Video - Noreen Herzfeld, "Surrogate Partner or Tool: How Autonomous Should Technology Be?"
Video - Celia Deane-Drummond, "Empathy and the Evolution of Compassion"
Video - Greg Cootsona, “Listening to Emerging Adults and Discerning the Future State of the...
Video - Oliver Putz, “God's Self-Communication in an Evolving World: Evolution, Self, and Transcendental Being"
Video - Brian Green, “What Science Can and Cannot Say about Ethics”
Link - Brian Green, “What Science Can and Cannot Say about Ethics” (PPT presentation)
Link - Niels Gregersen, “Jesus and the Depth of Creation: The Idea of Deep Incarnation” (audio only)
Link - Bishop Richard Cheetham, "Lies, Damned Lies, Science and Theology: Exploring Truth Claims in Science and Religion in Academia...
Video - Joshua Moritz, "Chosen From Among the Animals: The End of Human Uniqueness and the Election of the Image of God"
Video - George Ellis, "Cosmology and Ultimate Causality"
Video - Paul Santmire, "Toward a Cosmic Christology: A Kerygmatic Proposal"


2017 Student Showcase

Video - Austin Eikenberry, “The Temporality of Creation and the Eternality of God”
Video - Braden Molhoek, “Original Sin, Intergroup Bias and the Importance of Friendship”
Video - Hun Cho Yu (read by Robert John Russell), “On the Reason for Christian Hope: Theodicy and the Eschatological Hope of the Christian Faith”

2016 Student Showcase

Video - Sungho Lee, “Radical Relationship: The Trinity, Humans, and Non-humans”
Video - Braden Molhoek, “Original Righteousness Contributes to the Inevitability of Sin?”
Video - Adam Pryor (presented by Robert Russell), “The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God”
Video - Alan Weissenbacher, “Neuroscience and Spiritual Formation”

2015 Student Showcase

Video - Daekyung Jung, “Divine Action and the Origin of Life: Theistic Evolution and Semantic Divine Action”
Video - John King, “The One, the Many, and the Philosophy of Science: A Comparison of Trinitarian and Buddhist Epistemologies”
Video - Kirk Wegter-McNelly (presented by Robert Russell), “Untangling the Entangled God”
Video - Q&A

2014 Student Showcase

Video - Mary Cheng: Communal Hymn Singing as Catalyst for Spiritual Transformation in Early Methodist Spirituality
Video - Braden Molhoek: “Reinhold Niebuhr’s Anthropology in Light of Theology and Science”
Video - Jamie Randolph, “A Biological Model of the Happy Exchange”
Video - Alan Weissenbacher, “The Born Again Brain: Neuroscience and Wesleyan Soteriology”


Science and Spirit Conference

Link - Science and Spirit Conference, with Craig Boyd, Joshua Moritz, Thomas Oord, LeRon Shults and Amos Yong (audio only)


CTNS 25th Anniversary

Video - Carl Helrich on Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science
Video - Ted Peters on the Vatican Observatory / CTNS Collaboration
Video - Robert John Russell on the History of CTNS
Video - Nathan Hallanger, God’s Action in Nature’s World Book Launch
Video - Hillary Regan, Cosmology, Evolution and Resurrection Hope Book Launch
Video - Anniversary Banquet Before Dinner Speeches: Nancey Murphy, Bill Stoeger, SJ, James Donahue
Video - Anniversary Banquet After Dinner Speeches: Nancey Murphy, Ian Barbour, Charles Townes


London Gifford Symposium, Gifford Lectures Revisited: Reflections of Seven Templeton Laureates, "How my Mind has Changed"

Video - Part 1 (Martin Rees, John Barrow, Freeman Dyson, moderated by George Ellis)
Video - Part 2 (Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne, Holmes Rolston, Charles Taylor, moderated by Keith Ward)