CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from March 2007

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from March 2007

Editorials.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... We are pleased to offer this issue on the often contentious relationship between science and religion. There are at least four major ways in which our contributors construe that relationship. First, one can accept the authority of both science...

Genesis meets the Big Bang and evolution, absent design.
March 22, 2007... In terms of the history of the human species, our discoveries of the natural origins of life and the universe as we know it have occurred relatively recently. Regardless of one's religious belief system, the discoveries of our origins have...

Darwin and democracy.
March 22, 2007... When Charles Darwin died in 1882, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, against the wishes of his family. His memorial, placed under Newton's, testifies both to the acceptance of the theory of evolution and to the confidence of the Anglican...

How will it all end? Eschatology in science and religion.
March 22, 2007... In retrospect, eschatology has been part of my theological agenda since I began to reflect on theology, some fifty years ago. I recently came upon the essays I wrote for admission to Rabbinical School back in the spring of 1954. To my...

Brains, bodies, beliefs, and behavior.
March 22, 2007... Eight years ago a physician appeared in my office in Dallas, Texas and said, "Bill, I am in charge of the program next year for the International Society for the Advancement of Humanistic Studies in Medicine (now known as SHIM, the Society for...

Teaching science and religion in a Jewish seminary.
March 22, 2007... "I want to know the enemy." The time is the mid-eighties. The place, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The occasion is the opening session of the first course I taught there, "Psychology and Religious Thought," informally subtitled...

Speaking across the chasm: literature as a bridge between science and religion.
March 22, 2007... Introduction As an instructor of core courses on world religions at a large public university, I am often confronted with the problem of articulating how the academic study of religion differs from religious instruction one receives in...

Self-sacrificial love: evolutionary deception or theological reality?
March 22, 2007... It has become fashionable in our culture to see science and religion as enemies locked in a conflict that can only end when one of them breathes its last breath. This is ironic since modern science had its origins in the minds of European...

Global warming and religious stick fighting.
March 22, 2007... Global warming has received a spate of media and popular attention recently. News clips and television programs tug at our hearts by showing polar bears stranded on plazas of ice, hopelessly peering at us as we helplessly peer back. And...

"Intelligent design," Natural Design, and the problem of meaning in the natural world.
March 22, 2007... Without free will we cannot repent. Yet repentance in one's own mind--that is, the admission of a secret that one has kept from everyone else--is of course central to our actions. For Jews, it is the cornerstone of the observance of the Day of...

We have been around only a very short time. Amy Pollack.
March 22, 2007... We are on a rocky, metallic planet composed of the dust of dead stars, orbiting a middle-aged star born of the same stardust some 5 billion years ago. Our sun may live another 5 or ten billion years but no more. It sits in an arm of a galaxy...

Sexual Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom.(BOOKS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr. Sexual Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom Greenwood-Praeger, 2007. 172 pp. (Cloth) $49.95 The first 2007 publication to come into my hand for review is a stunningly important one. Raymond J. Lawrence,...

Catwalk.(POETRY)(Poem)
March 22, 2007... A cat crosses the street in black dawn freedom until the sun or some other creature says it like it really is--you know, showing up on time, track record the dull passing of days your contribution needed before it was labeled as...

Subject Matter.(POETRY)(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Anywhere anyone finds the red leaf, rising tide, the bicycle pump--the evolution of which remains confined to the principle of weight technology--helps the imagination; Olmsted taking the river system through Nicaragua back to New York...