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The Perception of Saints: The Compatibility of Free Will in Science and Religion

Science and religion may be in fact “too diffuse as cultural phenomena to be said to have a nature.” Despite this, might certain perspectives of science and religion be compatible in understanding traditional spiritual doctrines like those of free will and the soul? To answer this, we will explore the compatibility between the mystical and phenomenological experience of the religious realm with the findings of contemporary science.

Meditations on Creativity, Artists, and Spirit

What is involved in the creative act, and how is the artist to prevail in the face of the great paradox that wrests the creator from creation? One solution for achieving the “spirit of the artist,” one who defies and prevails with passion and “divine grace,” is fostering the courage to cross beyond the limits of doubt and deconstruction, flowing with the creative encounter and affording the potential of our becoming to create “like God.”