Charles Darwin turned 200 years old this week, and later this year we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859. Those two anniversaries are appropriate occasions to reflect on the relationship between Religion and Science and especially on the implications of Evolution for Christian faith. There have been hundreds of articles written in the past few weeks to mark Darwin’s birthday, and on Sunday at St. James, we will focus on these issues in our adult forum.

Among the more interesting reflections published on the internet is an article that is based on an interview with Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefforts Schori, who is a trained scientist. You can read it here.

The Church of England has produced a useful website that outines Darwin’s relationship with Christianity (he studied theology for a time at Cambridge), and includes a number of articles on the historical context and on contemporary Christian understandings. It is here.

Here are a couple of more articles that some might find interesting: “Five things we can learn from Creationists” and “What does Darwin mean to you?”