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A Cambridge-based interdisciplinary research institute improving public understanding of science and religion.
🤖 Robotics in Education & Healthcare
🗓️ Nov 18 | 🕐 1–2 PM (UK)
📍 Shasha Suite, Westminster College + Online
🎤 With Dr Esyin Chew, Director @ EUREKA Robotics Centre, Cardiff Met.
Ethical AI in learning & care.
🔗 www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/dr-esy...
#Robotics #Education #Healthcare #WomenInSTEM #STEAM
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🚨 Seminar | Digital Accessibility & Faith
Join Prof. Jennifer George to learn how faith and tech shape our response to disability.
🔗https://www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/prof-jennifer-george-technology-and-disability-inclusion-in-education/
#Accessibility #FaithAndTech #DisabilityJustice #HigherEd
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🌿 “Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change: Good Stewardship in the 21st Century”
Join Prof. Mike Morecroft (Natural England) on Oct 21, 1–2PM at Westminster College, Cambridge (and online).
🔗 www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/prof-m...
#ClimateAction #FaithAndScience
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Natural Theology: A Reassessment
Join Prof. Andrew Loke
on Oct 7 (1–2pm BST), presenting a new case for the #Cosmological Argument and responding to critiques from #Hume, #Kant. Based on his Routledge book's
title.
📍 Cambridge + Online

🔗 www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/prof-a...
#NaturalTheology
September 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎧 New episode of Flourishing Together 🎙️
Prof. Russell Cowburn (Cambridge physicist & Canon Scientist @ St Albans) joins Ryan to explore:
Science & Religion: Conflicting or Co-existing?
🔗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

#ScienceAndReligion #RussellCowburn #FaradayInstitute
S1 E12: Reflections on Science and Religion: Conflicting or Co-existing? With Professor Russell Cowburn
Podcast Episode · Flourishing Together · 09/09/2025 · 15m
podcasts.apple.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 This is CRAZY. We’ve published 485 videos in 3 months—seminars, lectures & courses on science + religion. 1,600+ watch hours in 28 days. Catch up now—20 years of content going live fast.

📺 youtube.com/@FaradayInst...
#ScienceAndReligion #AcademicYouTube #CambridgeUniversity
September 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Better" tech — but better for whom?
Most #technology is shaped by the priorities of the powerful — not widows, orphans, immigrants, or the poor. How can the #church respond?

📅 5-session #course | #Online + #Cambridge
Starts 23 Oct 2025 | 7.30–9pm UK
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/techno...
Technology for the Marginalised | Faraday
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lizzie Henderson shows how science and faith can spark brilliant conversations—sometimes with actual flames involved. 🔥 #ScienceAndFaith #STEMEducation
Watch the video at:
www.instagram.com/reel/DNQXYmZ...
August 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🖼️⚖️ “Is the value of art in the process or the result?”
At last year’s Summer Course, Dr Mike Brownnutt posed this to our art, theology, and science panel.

What do you think?
👇 Share your thoughts in the comments!

#ArtAndTheology #ScienceAndReligion #CreativeProcess #FaithAndImagination
June 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🎥 Can #religion claim a role in the rise of modern #science?
Prof. Peter Harrison dives deep in this sharp 2019 Summer Course lecture.

📡 Join the 2025 #Summer #Course #online – all the insights, none of the dessert.
🎓 Watch now: www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/scienc...
June 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What can religion learn from art? Prof. Judith Wolfe explores how C.S. Lewis used sci-fi to rethink technology, imagination, and faith. Can art help us read doctrine differently? 🧠📖✨ #CSLewis #JudithWolfe #FaithAndImagination
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/scienc...
June 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
What do art galleries and science museums have in common? 🎨🔬
Prof. Charlotte Sleigh reflects on this surprising connection during a panel on the arts at the Faraday Summer Course 2024.
#FaradaySummerCourse #ArtAndScience #ScienceAndCulture
Book your place at www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/scienc...
June 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Join us on 8 November 2025 at Westminster College, Cambridge & online for Neurodiversity and the Church. Inclusive theology, practical strategies, & community. #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Faith #ChurchLife
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/neurod...
June 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What’s the feeling of the Faraday Summer Course? 🌞📚
A moment from our 2024 panel on philosophy 🧠💬 with Dr Pui Him Ip & Dr Tim Howles, reflecting on where disability fits in scientific & theological understandings of life. ♿🔬✝️

#FaradaySummerCourse #FaithAndScience #DisabilityTheology #shorts
June 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📣 Last Call to Register – In Person!
“#Science, #Religion, and #Justice”, a compelling one-week #Summer Course hosted by The Faraday Institute.

Monday 30th June – Friday 4th July, 2025
Location: Lucy Cavendish College, #Cambridge

🔗 Register now www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/scienc...
May 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We’re living through a genetic revolution. On June 3 at 1PM, Dr Chris Wild will explore how Christian values can help us navigate its ethical challenges.

📍 Join in person at Westminster College or online
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/prof-c...

#ScienceAndFaith #Bioethics #ChristianEthics #Cambridge
May 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📅 Tomorrow at 1PM
🌋 “Volcanoes: Reflections of Heaven or Hell?”
with Prof. Bob White FRS
Join in person at Westminster College or online.
Don’t miss this engaging look at #volcanoes, paradise, #disaster, and the language we use to describe them.

#seminar #ScienceAndFaith #FaithAndNature #cambridge
May 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Public #Lecture – Prof. Ard Louis
📍 Emmanuel College, Cambridge | 🗓 15 May 2025 | ⏰ 6–7pm
What does #convergence in #evolution tell us about the deep structures of #biology and the nature of #reality itself?

Register at www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/prof-a...
#cambridge #academic #discussion
Prof. Ard Louis – Evolution, Algorithms, and Convergence | Faraday
faraday.cam.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🎥 Now Available: A Glimpse into Past Faraday Summer Courses

✨ Could a #Robot Ever Have Real #Human #Identity?

🧪 The Role of Religion in the Rise of #Modern #Science

🌍 Science and #Religion through a #Colonial Lens

Explore and register here: www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/scienc...
#faradayinstitute
May 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM