FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Montreal chapter presents a discussion about ASA’s 2023 Winter Symposium, hosted by Joseph Vybihal (Computer Science, McGill). The Challenges of Scientists in the Church and Serving the Church This meeting will be a public discussion and report on the ASA 2023 Winter Symposium that explored the challenges of scientists serving the church; a recording of that symposium is available here. This will be a great time of sharing, discussing, and reporting. It will be a moderated discussion attempting to explore the ways scientists can serve the church, and the challenges that are inherent. This is open to …

FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Montreal chapter presents a lecture with Patrick Franklin (Associate Professor of Theology at Tyndale University), CSCA president 2020-2022.  Faith and Science in Response to the Problem of Suffering The existence of suffering in the world is one of the major obstacles to belief in God, both intellectually and experientially. Christianity has deep and practical resources to equip and support both those facing suffering and those seeking to alleviate suffering. However, it is crucial to distinguish and discern whether someone’s struggle with suffering is an intellectual or existential one. Intellectual responses to the problem of suffering (‘theodicies’) …