Muslim Voices explores the Neuroscience of Prayer. The website notes many scientists do not feel there enough information to come to any conclusions about the spiritual nature of prayer, but what they have observed thus far is clear: The brain behaves differently during times of meditation than other times. This is particularly true among seasoned […]
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Princeton News Story titled “Word association: Princeton study matches brain scans with complex thought,” Morgan Kelly writes “In an effort to understand what happens in the brain when a person reads or considers such abstract ideas as love or justice, Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of
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Scientific American article titled More than Child’s Play: Ability to Think Scientifically Declines as Kids Grow Up argues that young children think like researchers but lose the feel for the scientific method as they age.
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Conference attendees from the United States may choose to fly to Buffalo NY and drive into Canada for the Conference. US Domestic flights, coupled with a car rental m and gas, may prove a better financial than international flights to Toronto Canada. Check with your carriers for the best financial option. Note, the Conference Hotel
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NPR addresses neuroscience in its recent program Understanding The Mysterious Teenage Brain developed in response to the upcoming National Geographic (Oct 2011) cover story by David Dobbs titled Beautiful Brains
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If you are planning to attend the AAR/SBL meeting in San Francisco, don’t forget to greet our friends at the events hosted by the Wabash Center. More information here. The Wabash Center has graciously offered again to fund the breakfast for doctoral students at our own annual meeting.
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We are currently in the process of trying to create a comprehensive list of programs that offer a PhD, ThD, EdD, or DMin in religious education (or related areas). Can you help us? Here is the list that we currently have. We would very much appreciate your additions and corrections (which you can add as
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In each of the past two meetings we have scheduled times during which we have asked members to think together about the shape of our association, and the futures we might imagine together. Recently we’ve published a wordle image that distills into a visual form the many pages of notes we transcribed from each of
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Brains R Us describes a series of meetings/videos compiled on The Science Network (sponsored by UC San Diego, Vanderbilt University, The Salk Institute among others) which provides several presentations within the last ten years on brain and learning. TSN offers other challenging presentations including a series on religion and neuroscience titled Beyond Belief.
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Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has announced that an internment service will be held for C. Ellis Nelson on August 12th. The service will take place at the Seminary’s Memorial Garden, which is located behind the Frank H. and Fannie W. Caldwell Chapel, where Dr. Nelson wished his ashes to be buried.
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