“Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so mere people can no longer terrify them.” Psalm 10:17–18   Stop Child Witch Accusations (SCWA) was formed in 2012 and is a coalition of predominantly Christian,…

“If we fail to hold together the mediation of salvation and that of creation,” wrote Colin Gunton some years ago, “we risk a reversion to [Gnosticism].” One could say the entirety of the Henry Center’s Creation Project strives to maintain that very balance. Nathan Chambers, who joins the Creation Project in its second year as…

In Adam’s fall we sinned all. In spite of what this well-known pithy summary of the Christian doctrine of original sin might suggest, things are a bit more complicated. Daniel Houck will be joining the Creation Project in the second year as a research fellow to explore how the thought of Thomas Aquinas provides helpful…

Among the more interesting and less appreciated developments of modern scientific society is the emergence of a new genre of literature: science fiction. While the works may be fictive, they should not be understood as mere entertainment. Indeed, they represent a kind of eschatological—and often apocalyptic—imagination, one inseparably tied to an important element of our…

Gavin Ortlund joins the Creation Project after recently earning a PhD in historical theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. His dissertation, which will soon be published by Brill, is titled “Ascending Toward the Beatific Vision: Heaven as the Climax of Anselm’s Proslogion” and focuses on St. Anselm’s doctrine of heaven in the Proslogion. As one might guess from…

Marc Cortez, associate professor of theology and chair of the PhD program at Wheaton College, thinks it’s well past time the idea that there has been a long-standing war between Christianity and science needs to be debunked. Cortez was named a senior research fellow of the Henry Center’s Creation Project for the upcoming 2017–2018 academic…

Through diverse life experiences—from his background professionally as an engineer to his missionary service with ReachGlobal—Todd Patterson (PhD, Trinity International University) has become an adept bridge-builder. In these contexts he has had opportunity to connect his Christian faith to science and technology; to share his evangelical convictions in a secular Slovak society; and to invite…

The current conversation about science and Christianity – particularly how to read Genesis in light of scientific advance – did not fall from the sky, but developed out of a historical stream of thinking, discovery, and intellectual inquiry. Our generation is not the first to ponder these issues, and a storehouse of insight awaits those who are willing…

Hans Madueme is both a doctor and the son of a doctor. Born in Sweden, the son of a Nigerian nuclear physicist, Madueme was destined for a successful career. Like a prize horse, he was not only born from the right family line, but also received the proper grooming and training: boarding school in England;…

What the authors of Scripture said, God said—right? It’s a concise way of explaining the sometimes difficult doctrine of Scriptural inspiration. The average Christian, then, can feel comfortable trusting in the Bible’s authority and get down to the business of learning from it. But Dr. John W. Hilber, one of two 2016-17 Senior Henry Fellows…

Many disagreements exist in the evangelical church (even more among all churches) about how to read Genesis 1–11, from the story of creation to the Tower of Babel. This of course affects the way the church presents its understanding of both creation and the creator God, and the result is often as equally discordant publicly…

Aru is the name of my small home town located in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the Ituri District. It could have been called the “Salem of DRC.” In June 2001, several hundred people accused of witchcraft were brutally killed exclusively in Aru, one of the counties of the…