Abrahams Children

Originally set up to promote video interviews and shorts inspired by Kelly James Clark's book "Abraham's Children: Liberty & Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict" (https://www.amazon.com/Abrahams-Children-Tolerance-Religious-Conflict/dp/0300179375/), we now focus on our current project, "Abrahamic Reflections on Science & Religion" (https://www.gvsu.edu/interfaith/science-and-religion-an-abrahamic-inquiry-37.htm)

Thanks to a nearly $1M grant from the John Templeton Foundation, we have gathered an impressive array of scholars—scientists and philosophers worldwide—from each of the Abrahamic faiths to address the problem of randomness and providence: how can God achieve God’s purposes if reality is random? In each of these communities, we find an ongoing debate between moderate and fundamentalist approaches to religion, one that often pits science against religion. This conference aims to resolve that conflict.