Discovery & Faith is grateful to be part of the Baltimore Region Leadership Day. Many thanks to the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church for their hospitality! Here are a few resources I recommended to get started on the faith-and-science dialogue in your ministry setting:

For making sense of the Genesis-evolution relationship and understanding Genesis in its ancient near Eastern context:

Making Sense of Genesis: House Story, Home Story

Genesis 1: House Story, Home Story

Interpreting the Creation Story by John Walton (published by Seedbed)

Side-by-side approach to science and biblical faith

Websites:

WesleyNexus: Science and religion in the Wesleyan tradition

BioLogos: Presents an evolutionary understanding of God’ creation

The Book of Works: Science and faith, together

Books:

McHargue, Mike. Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science. Convergent Books, 2017.

Collins, Francis. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Free Press, 2006.