The Faith and Science Podcast

8-20-23 - Seeing Beyond the Situation

The readings this week are Genesis 45:1-15 and Psalm 133, or Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 and Psalm 67, with Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32, and Matthew 15:10-20, 21-28.  This week we look at science discoveries that are showing to have bigger impacts than first thought.  These are discoveries that are and will help us understand ourselves better with time even though they come from octopi and bacteria.  Are we willing to keep striving to understand more to get to where God wants us to be? Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Where do we need to see beyond where we are at, right now?  #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
8-16-20 - Looking for the Overlooked!
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92S2u-q8tng&list=LL&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lGQq59hCY&list=LL&index=6
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2214815120
https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Chemistry-of-Human-Vision-The-Retinoid-Cycle.aspx
https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Chemistry-of-Human-Vision-The-Retinoid-Cycle.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiRc2FGh71o
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867423005238
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00523-8.pdf
 

8-13-23 - The ”Tension” we all NEED to Walk!

The readings this week are Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 and Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b, or1 Kings 19:9-18 and Psalm 85:8-13, with Romans 10:5-15, and Matthew 14:22-33.  This week we look at how we have a difficult walk to do with our current climate crisis.  In that though, there seems to be some hope from some recent discoveries that may require some geo-engineering.  This will be hard work, but it's nothing new to followers of "The Way".  Are we willing to put in the work again this time? Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Have you felt like you're walking that tension (needed in our current climate crisis)? 
Have you felt that tension? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
8-9-2020 - The Need for Doubt in Science and Faith!
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8pwE3IByg
https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unforeseen-test-geoengineering-fueling-record-ocean-warmth
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/8259/2023/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn7988
https://zenodo.org/record/7864530
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/surface-tension-allows-a-water-strider-walk-water#:~:text=Water%20striders%20are%20able%20to,adapted%20legs%20and%20distributed%20weight.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic-ocean-temperatures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves
https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic-ocean-temperatures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves
https://abc7ny.com/ocean-temperature-florida-fl-water-temps-temperatures-heat/13551473/#:~:text=%3E-,A%20buoy%20in%20Manatee%20Bay%2C%20Florida%2C%20reported%20a%20preliminary%20high,global%20record%2C%20according%20to%20experts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/climate/florida-100-degree-water.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03573-z#:~:text=07%20November%202022-,Climate%20change%20is%20costing%20trillions%20%E2%80%94%20and%20low%2Dincome%20countries%20are,suffered%20the%20greatest%20financial%20losses.
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/03/23/blog032322-poor-and-vulnerable-countris-need-support-to-adapt-to-climate-change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFPoM5Eb4Y
 

8-6-23 - Abundance in Plants and Lobsters, Why not Us?

The readings this week are Genesis 32:22-31, with Psalm 17:1-7, 15, or Isaiah 55:1-5, with Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21, Romans 9:1-5, and Matthew 14:13-21.  This week how plants and lobsters can work in abundance and not expect a large return.  They provide in abundance and expect that God will work within that to provide.  Why don't we work in the same way?  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Where are you seeing abundance? 
What are you going to do with that abundance? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
8-2-20 - Jesus Invites Us into a New Lifestyle!
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www2.nau.edu/lrm22/lessons/r_and_k_selection/r_and_k.html
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/american-lobster
https://mlcalliance.org/all-about-lobster/lobster-1-3-reproduction-and-life-cycle/
https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/new-lobster-size-rules-considered/
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Lobsters-Scientists-Unraveling/dp/0060555599
https://umaine.edu/lobsterinstitute/educational-resources/life-cycle-reproduction/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8uyMhOLyU
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=554243703146610
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJogiaAofCg
 

7-30-23 - Life-Saving Blood can be a PAIN!

The readings this week are Genesis 29:15-28 with Psalm 105:1-11, 45b or Psalm 128, or 1 Kings 3:5-12 with Psalm 119:129-136, Romans 8:26-39, and Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52.  This week look at how an irritant can become something beautiful.  This is something that can easily be overlooked but if we are willing to look and dig deeper we just might find something that is much more beautiful than we expected, or even save lives!  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
What are things that we overlook that become beautiful later? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
7-26-20 - Finding the ”Pearls” in our Life!
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVkvPJLzqg
https://ww2.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/bible/mustard.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07OvPEoR6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O33I5g_t-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxKkBC6L2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ihGlsLL1Y
 

7-23-23 -Communication Growth to get Closer to God?

The readings this week are Genesis 28:10-19a and Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24, or Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19, or Isaiah 44:6-8 and Psalm 86:11-17, Romans 8:12-25, and Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.  This week look at how much has changed in the last 500 but especially the last 200 years when it comes to communication.  Our desire to share ideas with each other quickly can be seen in how much we have improved it.  Do we, though, do the same with our instantaneous communication that we have with God?  Do we use the resource or look for the responses that God is trying to communicate with us about?  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Where do you go to have those intimate conversations with God? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
7-19-20 - Called into Love, Not to Be a Judge
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
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https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/
https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/globalization/two-hundred-years-global-communications
https://jacobsladderexercise.com/product/jacobs-ladder-gym-equipment/
https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml#:~:text=Sharing%20Resources,government%20researchers%20to%20share%20information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7N-1Mj-DU&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf0F4GYzWQ&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=4
 

7-16-23 - Plants Share! Does our Faith?

The readings this week are Genesis 25:19-34 and Psalm 119:105-112, or Isaiah 55:10-13 and Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13, Romans 8:1-11, and Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23.  This week we talk about seed dispersal and how plants communicate with each other.  If we take this information and think about it with the parable of the sower and the seed, we see the need to communicate with others with their faith.  If that is the case, are we making sure that we are not only working our soil but sharing and communicating with others what we can share and what we need to grow?  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Where have you cared about another person's plant (or Faith)? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
7-12-20 - Are we being ”Good Soil”?
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
Facebook Group: Faith and Science Podcast Group
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQXBCJhuZ0
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222536704_Birds_as_agents_of_seed_dispersal_in_a_human-dominated_landscape_in_southern_Costa_Rica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s48cM7v6Vqo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_dispersal#:~:text=There%20are%20five%20main%20modes,response%20to%20an%20environmental%20stimulus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_communication#cite_note-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-009-1076-2
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NutpjLRTKyg
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ei2ou5FrQQo
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/507590v4
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37001499/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjt8WT5mRs
https://www.sciencemuseumok.org/smoathome/learn-seed-dispersal
 

7-9-23 - Falling Short Can ”Tilt” Things

The readings this week are Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 with Psalm 45:10-17 or Song of Solomon 2:8-13, or Zechariah 9:9-12 with Psalm 145:8-14, Romans 7:15-25a, and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30.  This week we talk about how we have now physically changed the tilt of our planet due to how we are changing the amount of groundwater around the world.  Are we okay with this?  Are we willing to notice and admit the wrongs that we have done to our planet, and realize the effects they have in order for us to work together to solve these problems?  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
Where have you fallen short? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
7-5-20 - The Balance of Action and Patience in Faith
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
Facebook Group: Faith and Science Podcast Group
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/climate/groundwater-earth-spin-axis.html
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103509
https://www.space.com/earth-tilt-changed-by-groundwater-pumping
 

7-2-23 - Connecting Together to Provide

The readings this week are Genesis 22:1-14 and Psalm 13, or Jeremiah 28:5-9 and Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18, Romans 6:12-23, and Matthew 10:40-42.  This week we talk about regenerative farming and soil.  We have a need for food and for things to grow.  This means that we need to have a growing appreciation for the amazing gift of the ground that allows it to grow.  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
What groups do you feel are really well connected together? #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
6-28-20 - The Power of Welcoming Others In!
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
Facebook Group: Faith and Science Podcast Group
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udseIcrUxvA
https://www.goodcourage.farm/
 

2023 Gustavus Academy of Faith, Science, and Ethics

Dear Listeners,
 
After advertising and talking about it for months, I was able to attend Gustavus' Academy of Faith, Science, and Ethics for 2023.  I had an amazing time interacting with this amazing group of young adults and hearing how they see Faith and Science working together and also the questions they have.  I believe listening to this, it gives us a glimpse of the questions that some of the younger people in the faith are wondering about with Faith and Science.  Hopefully, this encourages all of us to keep the conversation going.
Thank you so much,
Tyler Bublitz
 
To learn more about the Academy please check out:
https://gustavus.edu/chaplain/academy/
https://sites.google.com/gustavus.edu/gafse-summer-intensive-2023/home?authuser=0
 

6-25-23 - Migrating Beyond our Borders!

The readings this week are Genesis 21:8-21 and Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17, or Jeremiah 20:7-13 and Psalm 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18, Romans 6:1b-11, and Matthew 10:24-39.  This week we looking at the Migratory Bird Treaty and how that has impacted our understanding of seeing beyond barriers.  By slowly understanding how birds migrate, we start to appreciate them as a resource and see the world around us as a resource that the world benefits from. As we expand our vision, we start to see our role within the creation and gain a deeper understanding of the creator of it.  Thanks again for taking the time out to listen to this and I hope this is a tool that you find useful.
Remember to answer this week's question:
When have we had the relationship with the creation that we should? In understanding the creation, we are better able to understand the creator! #FaithandSciPod
If you're wanting to hear another podcast on these texts check out:  
6-21-20 - Persecution is Part of Our Christian Character
I look forward to all of your feedback,Tyler Bublitz
March On by Silent PartnerPorches and Universes by Puddle of InfinitySocial MediaTwitter: @FaithandSciPod
Facebook Group: Faith and Science Podcast Group
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The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable (Weekly) or Green Blades Rising Publications (Monthly) reach out to ecofaith@nemnsynod.org and say which you would like to sign up for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRmTAzfcZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nr6GxC6z7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZhM9kzLFo
https://partnersinflight.org/
https://moumn.org/