Over the weekend of 15–17 February 2019, SCIO hosted The North American Colloquium in St Petersburg, Florida. This was an event of the Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities project funded by the Templeton Religion Trust and the Blankemeyer Foundation.
The colloquium brought together 32 faculty members and over 40 of their senior academic officers, campus ministers, and student development officers from 20 institutions to discuss strategies for impacting science and religion dialogues on their campuses. Through plenary talks, panel sessions, workshops, and breakouts groups, participants explored how they could partner together to maximize the long-term, sustainable impact of science and religion discussions among students, faculty, and administrators on campus.
Highlights of the weekend included plenary talks given by Dr April Maskiewicz Cordero (Point Loma Nazarene University) and Dr Jonathan Hill (Calvin College), a video lecture by Professor Alister McGrath (University of Oxford), and a performance by Andrew Harrison of the one-man play, Mr. Darwin’s Tree (written and directed by Murray Watts). The group was also led in worship on Sunday morning by Dr Bill Van Groningen (Trinity Christian College) and Dr Todd Pickett (Biola University). For details about the talks and sessions, please see the colloquium schedule.