When Science and Religion Agree - St Patrick's Day - 2024

It can be pleasing when you find a meeting of minds, as it were, between science and religion, after all, there is no need for them to be at odds, and at best they can act as a corrective and a refiner, one to the other.
Religion can humanize science, can bring to it ethical and spiritual insights that otherwise it might lack. Science can bring to religion the challenge of intellectual rigour - otherwise Galileo would still be condemned and we would still think the world flat.
But together, and working in harmony, they can bring so much to our understanding of the world and our place in it.
In today’s gospel reading, we find one such example - of the two working hand in hand.
Part of the Church of Ireland, St Nicholas Church, Adare and its fellow churches teaches and ministers within the progressive Christianity tradition, with influences from the scholars who built on the work of the Jesus Seminar.It seeks to be a church that is welcoming and inclusive, affirming and open in its liberal theology; and whilst we don’t claim to have all the answers, we are most certainly committed to ‘living the questions’. We have influences of Celtic spirituality in our worship and view of the natural world, living as we do in the beauty of County Limerick.
The Church of Ireland also forms part of the Anglican communion which is an association of Anglican churches from 38 provinces, including the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church in Wales, the Episcopal Church in the USA (otherwise known as the Episcopalians) and churches across the globe. With 80 million members, it is the third largest Christian body in the world, after the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Music: Music artist: Crowander - 'Don't you leave'
Album: From the Piano
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